"These Are the Times," or, in Other Words: Thomas Paine's 1776 Wartime Journalism
Journal: New York History
Year: 2020

"These Are the Times," or, in Other WordsThomas Paine's 1776 Wartime Journalism Mariam Touba (bio) It is the old soldier's lament: The generals and great battles go down in history, but the side actions—equally dangerous and deadly to the participants—are lost in the telling. In 1811, Pennsylvania memoirist Alexander Graydon had that complaint about a forgotten skirmish on Manhattan Island in the fall of 1776, coming between the Battle of Harlem Heights and that at White Plains. Except, he noted