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Elektratig (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Here's a link to a recent interview with Ira Stoll, discussing Samuel Adams: A Life : It's pretty likely that if Samuel Adams hadn't existed at the time he did, America would have ended up more like Canada, sort of existing in the extended orbit of the British Empire for a much longer period of time and only gradually drifing away. Although I haven't read Mr. Stoll's book,...
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Free In Idaho! (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Here’s a sixer of Samuel Adams for you to ponder as we go into the Thanksgiving holiday. Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. A general dissolution of the principles [...]
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
In an article that originally appeared in The New York Post , Associate Editor Michael C. Moynihan reviews Ira Stoll's new Samuel Adams: A Life , which restores the often-overlooked founder to his proper place in the American Revolution. Read all about it here.
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TigerHawk (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
It turns out that Samuel Adams probably deserves the credit for establishing Thanksgiving as the great American holiday. Here I was, drinking beer named after the guy, and I did not even know that. CWCID: Glenn Reynolds.
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The Senescent Man (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
First, an excellent piece on the origin of the American Thanksgiving holiday . Excerpt below: "It was the first of many Thanksgivings ordered up by Samuel Adams. Though the holidays were almost always in November or December, the exact dates varied. (Congress didn't fix Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November until 1941.) "In 1778, a Thanksgiving resolution drafted by Adams...
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Between Two Worlds (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Ira Stoll in the Wall Street Journal looks back at the first Thanksgiving proclamation--not by Lincoln, but by Samuel Adams in 1777. And David Gelernter in The Weekly Standard looks back at Lincoln's last Thanksgiving, April 11, 1865--two days after end of the Civil War and four days before the president was murdered. Both articles explore the historical situation at those times.
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The Hedgehog Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
As recounted by Ira Stoll, in his Thanksgiving essay linked in the previous post, many American declarations of Thanksgiving followed the first one by the Continental Congress. Samuel Adams seemed to issue one at nearly every opportunity. However, the identification of the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving dates back to the Thanksgiving Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln...
