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 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 ...
"Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors.
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 ...
Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. Shays’s Rebellion filled Alexander Hamilton with dread. In 1786, armed men ...
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