Most patriotic of early U. S. composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix’s Vaux ...
In May 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a brigadier general anxiously wrote George Washington a letter about a British raid that had just occurred in Danbury, Connecticut. Though the British ...
Excitement builds for the fast-approaching 250th anniversary of the United States identified as the Semiquincentennial, Bisesquicentennial, Sestercentennial, Quarter Millennial or the Big Two-Five-O.
A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on ...