#Latest news with #JosiahBushnellGrinnellWashington Post19-04-2025PoliticsWashington PostWho really fired the shot that started the American Revolution?In 1887, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell spoke to a packed house at the Congregational Church in New Haven, Vermont. The U.S. congressman from Iowa and radical abolitionist in the lead-up to the Civil War had returned to his tiny hometown to be the keynote speaker at a Historical Day commemoration.
Washington Post19-04-2025PoliticsWashington PostWho really fired the shot that started the American Revolution?In 1887, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell spoke to a packed house at the Congregational Church in New Haven, Vermont. The U.S. congressman from Iowa and radical abolitionist in the lead-up to the Civil War had returned to his tiny hometown to be the keynote speaker at a Historical Day commemoration.
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