Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...
In the years following the Boston Massacre, playwright Mercy Otis Warren wrote that "No previous outrage had given a general alarm, as the commotion on the fifth of March, 1770." Although the ...
In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on her American colonies that were met with increasing disdain and violence. In Boston, when officials came to regulate documents under the ...