Tag: American Revolution

Gary Gregory of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, in the 1715 Clough House o the campus of Boston's Old North Church, Aug. 13, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)

Books Greg CookSeptember 5, 2023 0

At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution

Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →

Nathaniel Philbrick’s “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown," 2018. (Viking)

Books Greg CookNovember 14, 2018 0

In Nathaniel Philbrick’s New Book, How The French Navy Turned The Tide Of The American Revolution

The American Revolution is in its fifth year in Nathaniel Philbrick’s spirited new history, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown” (Viking), his…Continue Reading →