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I wrote a piece about the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and how I wove the battle into THE ECHOES, for The History Reader.
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"The Philadelphia: Our Most Evocative National Relic" by Jack Kelly
"I have traveled to Revolutionary-era battlefields and forts. I’ve examined countless eighteenth-century muskets, uniforms, swords, and shoe buckles. I’ve looked at the original Declaration of Independence in the National Archives. Yet a single artifact has always stood above the others in evoking the immediacy and reality of the Revolutionary War. It rests not under an ornate rotunda but in a dusty corner of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on the Mall in Washington.
"The Philadelphia is the oldest American warship still in existence. Built in the summer of 1776, it is now on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
This image is in the public domain via Wikicommons.
The Philadelphia is a fifty-five-foot-long wooden boat powered by oars and a single sail that was built in the summer of 1776. Although weathered and battered, the boat has a presence. She is the oldest American warship still in existence. Her record of service goes back to the days, a few months after the nation’s birth, when the success of the Revolution teetered on a knife edge. The forty-five men who manned this cramped open boat played a critical role in making sure that the cause of liberty survived.
"The boat was part of a crucial campaign to head off a British invasion along Lake Champlain in northern New York. Eight gunboats, three larger row galleys, a schooner, and several other vessels were assigned to stop the British from transporting a large army southward along the narrow lake. The American fleet was commanded by Benedict Arnold—he would not turn traitor for another four years..."
Read the rest of this article via The History Reader link at the bottom of this post.
Jack Kelly is an award-winning author and historian. His books include 'Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence', which received the DAR History Medal. He is also the author of 'The Edge of Anarchy', 'Heaven’s Ditch', and 'Gunpowder' and is a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Nonfiction Literature. Kelly has appeared on The HISTORY Channel, NPR, and C-SPAN. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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My article for The History Reader about a particular time in Prohibition history that becomes part of the plot of THE STILLS.
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Shades of history past to enlighten us. On some of the same today. How many of our present leaders, have the same thought of these figuers of the past History.