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Stacy Schiff

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How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

Pseudonyms allowed Adams to audition ideas and venture out on limbs without fear of reprisal.

by Stacy Schiff via Literary Hub on November 3, 2022
The Single Greatest Witch Hunt in American History, for Real

Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.

by Stacy Schiff via The New Yorker on May 18, 2017
Affable, He Convicted Salem Innocents

In a novelized biography of Samuel Sewell, a greater mystery than what bedeviled the girls is what motivated a righteous man to condemn them for witchcraft.

by Stacy Schiff via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2017

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams.

Hanged on a Venerable Elm

The shadow of Samuel Adams, a crafty and government-wary revolutionary, lingers over the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

by Colin Kidd via London Review of Books on January 25, 2023

Illustration of Samuel Adams writing a document, with images of the American revolution behind him.

How Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on October 24, 2022

Smiling porcelain salt and pepper shaker figures called "the Pilgrim Pair," and their children, "Lilgrims," atop two academic books about Puritan history entitled "The Barbarous Years" and "Seasons of Misery."

Come On, Lilgrim

The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.

by Jonathan Beecher Field via Commonplace on December 16, 2015

Thomkins H. Matteson's painting of George Jacobs' witchcraft trial in 1855

The Salem Witch Trials Actually Happened in Danvers, Massachusetts

Tensions between Salem and Danvers were there from the start—contributing to the ensuing witch hysteria.

by Theresa McKinney via Atlas Obscura on October 26, 2023

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