Work had barely begun on the new U.S. Constitution when, in September 1786, Western Massachusetts erupted in violence. In what became known as Shays’ Rebellion, farmers and merchants took up arms ...
Jailhouse records describing the incarceration of dozens of participants of Shays’ Rebellion sat for decades in a cardboard box at the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Office before state archivists ...
As the nation prepares for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Massachusetts archivists discovered historic documents from Shays' Rebellion, an uprising that occurred after the nation ...
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 ...
The uninvited guest : Daniel Shays and the constitution / Robert A. Gross -- The public creditor interest in Massachusetts politics, 1780-86 / Richard Buel, Jr. -- Shays's Rebellion in long ...
As the nation prepares for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Massachusetts archivists discovered historic documents from Shays' Rebellion, an uprising that occurred after the nation ...
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