Among the many yellowing paperbacks on my shelves is a copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. It's a sort of greatest hits collection of contemporaneous ...

Orator James Otis Jr. and writer Mercy Otis Warren, West Barnstable siblings, championed individual rights during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the National Women’s History Museum reported, Warren was born on Sept. 14, 1728, in Barnstable, MA. She was the third child of ...

We’ve all heard of Abigail Adams, Martha Washington and Dolley Madison. Few, however, know historian, playwright, poetess, and scholar Mercy Otis Warren — and that’s a shame. Turning to Mercy on ...

The Founding Fathers had a lot to say about Thanksgiving. George Washington issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. His successor, John Adams, recommended a day of fasting, humility and prayer.

The American Revolution is chock-full of famous names: Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, etc. But there are some figures who are not as well known—even though their ...