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Today in history, on Jan. 25, 1787, the largest confrontation of Shays’ Rebellion, outside the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, resulted in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty. It was the culmination of a financial conflict between veterans of...
Editor’s Note: Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was one of the signers of the US Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He was one of three men who refused to sign the Constitution because it did not then...
