CSPAN3 Book Discussion On Revolutionary Medicine July 4, 2014
Historic building. Someone asked me before how i moved from American History to jewish history to jewish womens history and back to colonial American History, and it reminded me what really launched me in my career in history was the trip i took many, many years ago as a freshman in college to the new york city historical society. I was given an assignment to do a paper on loyalists in the American Revolution in new york, and, really, to my astonishment, when i went into the society, i asked for some materials, and they handed me a packet of original letters written by loyalists. In those days...