Kingston, NY
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
The Night Kingston Burned
They could see it from the hills. The families who had fled when Vaughan's ships appeared on the river — carrying what they could, leaving the rest — stood on the ridges above the Rondout Creek and wa...
Modern Voices
Writing a State Into Being
The New York State Constitution of 1777 is sometimes treated as an afterthought — a regional document important to specialists but not to the general story of the Revolution. That framing misses what ...
