EXULT, each patriot heart!—this night is shewn A piece, which we may fairly call our own. Fun fact for you this Independence Day: the first play written and performed in America was a comedy called “The Contrast” by Royall Tyler in 1787. The epigraph up there is from the play’s prologue; if you really want …
Thanks to Miriam Landis at Island Books for putting together this Fourth of July reading list in the store’s journal, Message in a Bottle. Her stack includes 1776 by David McCullough, Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fisher. “Our country, the sweet land of …
