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The historiography of the Gaspee affair examines the changing views of historians and scholars with regard to the burning of HMS Gaspee, a British customs...

The Gaspee affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy customs schooner that enforced the Navigation...

Charles Akers, "The chief victim of Massachusetts historiography has been John Hancock, the most gifted and popular politician in the Bay State's long...

in the state of Rhode Island. It was led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who mobilized his followers to demand changes to the state's electoral rules. The state...

Much of the historiography concerns the reasons why the Americans rebelled in the 1770s and successfully broke away. Since the 1960s, the mainstream of historiography...

Councillors to sit with the committee on Indian Affairs never came to a vote, and the Queen of the Pamunkeys demanded compensation for the former war in which...

to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. The American Enlightenment was influenced by the 17th- and 18th-century Age of Enlightenment...

enforcing unpopular trade regulations, in what became known as the Gaspee Affair. The affair was investigated for possible treason, but no action was taken...

destruction of a customs vessel in the June 1772 Gaspee Affair, then came to a head in 1773. A banking crisis led to the near-collapse of the East India...

the American cause during the revolution in total, that would mean Black soldiers made up approximately four percent of the Patriots' numbers. Of the...

The siege of Yorktown is also known in some German historiographies as "die deutsche Schlacht" ("the German battle"), because Germans played significant...

 347–375 in JSTOR, covers historiography of environmental history Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)...

order to suppress illegal smuggling to evade the Townshend Acts and the Navigation Acts. The Gaspee Affair in which a revenue cutter ran aground in Rhode...

American Historiography: A View from Abroad." William and Mary Quarterly 62#4 (2005), pp. 745–76 online Dreisbach, Daniel L. Reading the Bible with the Founding...

not attempting conquest. The assembled chiefs agreed to remain neutral, with one Mohawk chief saying, "It is a family affair" and that they would "sit...

Lafayette's roles created a more nuanced picture of him in French historiography, especially in the French Revolution. 19th-century historian Jules Michelet...

Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s, 1984, her reprinted essays Appleby, Joyce, ed. "Republicanism in the History and Historiography of the United...

"The Kansas–Nebraska Act: A Century of Historiography", Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1956) 43#2 pp. 187–212 in JSTOR Potter, David M. The Impending...

Same-Sex Marriage". Gallup. For the historiography see Charles Chatfield, "At the hands of historians: The antiwar movement of the Vietnam era." Peace & Chang...

the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots...