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The key word in the title of Daniel Bullen’s “Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion,” subtitled “An American Story,” is “Honorable.” It is Bullen’s contention that the grievously unfair portrayal of the
A short history of the "Shays' rebellion" in Massachusetts in the wake of the American Revolution, in which many poor farmers and war veterans attempt to shut down the state's courts in protest at the debt burden on veterans and high taxes on farmers.
Stephen D. Butzâs book âShaysâ Settlement in Vermontâ (History Press, 2017) reveals a little-known side of the Shaysâ Rebellion story that played out in a final confrontation in Sheffield in 1787. When Perez Hamlin and other Regulators yielded to a superior Massachusetts militia force that chilly February day, instigators of the farmersâ revolt including Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays were elsewhere, sheltering on a mountaintop north of Arlington, Vt., on the New York border. That location has become an active archaeological site. Butz merges scarce docum...