Percy Bysshe Shelley Publishes ‘Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things’
The acquisition of a unique copy of Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things is a momentous event for scholars and readers of Percy Bysshe Shelley, …
The acquisition of a unique copy of Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things is a momentous event for scholars and readers of Percy Bysshe Shelley, …
One of the early threats to the republic came in March 1783, when a group of officers in the Continental Army decided to challenge the authority …
On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty, many dressed in disguise as Mohawks, boarded three British ships docked in Boston harbor and …
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American …
Townshend Acts, (June 15–July 2, 1767), in U.S. colonial history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what …
In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ …
John Ball was born in St Albans in about 1340. Twenty years later he was working as a priest in York. He eventually became the …