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\"We Were Declared Enemies to the Country\" brings to light two previously unpublished letters that describe the experience of Joshua Winslow, one of the consignees of the East India Company tea, as he and his associates were confronted by a violent crown in Boston in November, 1773. The letters afford the perspective of a man recently arrived from years in Canada to the fierce opposition to landing EIC tea in Boston.

When the great nineteenth-century antiquarian James Savage disputed the assumption that John Winthrop wrote A Short Story (London 1644), he was on to something, although the evidence he adduced was incorrect. Taking as a starting point two facts about the book-it is a compilation of documents and bears numerous marks of being an intentional text-this essay describes how the Short Story came into being and suggests who may be the \"I\" who mysteriously (and unidentified) speaks in the text.

This article examines the fine-grained practice of a classical education at seventeenth-century Boston Latin School. Building off wider early modern European practices, schoolboy and schoolmaster in Boston adapted Roman authors like Terence and Cicero to both pious and practical ends.

Conventional wisdom holds that “Uncle” Sam Wilson—a Troy, New York, meatpacker who, when he was supplying troops during the War of 1812, stamped his crates “U.S.”—inspired the federal government’s nickname; new evidence suggests, however, that the personification originated earlier, simply as a creative and colorful expansion of “U.S.”

This article utilises friendship as an analytical category to interpret the debate between Novanglus and Massachusettensis in 1774-75, demonstrating how the friendship of John Adams and Jonathan Sewall informed political discourse and Adams's radicalization, and validating Adams's presumption of Sewall's coauthorship of Massachusettensis with Daniel Leonard.

Though she was an ordinary person, not a leader or organizer, Eliza Marsh's life shows the importance of rural women to abolitionism, and suggests this female contribution was undervalued, as men, preoccupied with personal honor, engaged in factional schism. Includes a previously unknown statement on feminism by William Lloyd Garrison.

Confidante Abby Wood describes Emily Dickinson's tortured mind during the Great Revival of 1850. “She treated me as if she were insane,” Abby writes after a call. “The spirit of God is striving in her bosom and she is perfectly wretched.” While Wood is converted, Dickinson “grieves away” her opportunity.

‘Man the Reformer’ was the first of Emerson's works to be published in French translation. It appeared in a radical newspaper edited by the celebrated Polish author Adam Mickiewicz in Paris in 1849. This article is the first to examine this unique work, setting it in the context the revolutionary events of 1848-49.

The article prints a previously unpublished four-page letter that Emerson wrote in 1827, which details his impressions of Charleston, especially its religious and cultural institutions, during his visits there. The authors have mined Charleston newspapers and unpublished Emerson family correspondence to contextualize the letter as it sheds new light on Emerson's earliest southern sojourn.

Scholarly readings of seventeenth-century New England conversion narratives often miss the signs of regeneration that were very clear to contemporary church audiences. This article contains close readings of narratives from Thomas Shepard's Newtown church to bring out those signs and to restore the role of a godly audience to the process of gaining church membership.