Peter Slocum

Gen. John Burgoyne paused his army and set up camp at the mouth of the Boquet River on his way to Saratoga in June of 1777.  At that encampment, the proud British general devoted his attention to two sometimes overlooked groups that play important roles in the new “American Revolution” PBS television series – Native Americans and the large American Loyalist population. "John Burgoyne" by Joshua Reynolds, 1766 Ken Burns and his PBS team argue – in their six-part series – that our Revolutionary...

"As Essex County goes, so goes the Nation" is a maxim that accurately captures what has happened in every Presidential election in the...