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Two Ancestral Lives, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Enduring Legacy of Conscience October arrives dressed in enchantment. Witches soar across harvest moons, jack-o’-lanterns illuminate autumn evenings, and black cats keep mysterious company with bubbling cauldrons and crooked broomsticks. We delight in the theatrical mischief of Halloween, celebrating creatures and superstitions that have long inhabited…
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A Swamp Fox Soldier, Frontier Scout, and Witness to the Making of America Thomas C. Mills entered the world not as a citizen of the United States, but as a subject of King George III—born on September 29, 1760, in Jamaica, Long Island, an ancient settlement first carved into being by Dutch colonists. Jamaica—originally Rustdorp,…
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In his sweeping, four-volume masterpiece Conceived in Liberty, the twentieth-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard painted Anne Hutchinson in blazing colors: a fierce individualist, a radiant threat to what he saw as the “despotic Puritanical theocracy of Massachusetts Bay.” Murray Rothbard recognized in her a mind that refused to bow, a woman whose conscience…
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Edmund Freeman II, my 11th great-grandfather, lived at the crossroads of family ambition, religious conviction, and the perilous experiment of building a new society on the edge of the Atlantic wilderness. A World on the Move: The Pilgrims and Their Financiers Before Edmund Freeman II ever saw the shores of New England, the stage for…
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(1210-1290) Amidst the rolling green pastures and fathomless lochs of medieval Galloway—where the heather sighs beneath leaden skies and ancient stones murmur the secrets of centuries past—there lived a woman whose spirit blazed with such brilliance that her name, though half-veiled by time, yet echoes through the corridors of history. A woman of singular compassion…
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