The Paperwork of Liberty: How Paul Revere’s Forgotten Race to Save Government Records Secured the Revolution
Nearly every American schoolchild can recite the basics of Paul Revere’s "midnight ride." On the night of April 18, 1775, the Boston silversmith galloped through the Massachusetts countryside to warn that British "regulars" were approaching. Yet, history has largely obscured a secondary, equally perilous mission Revere undertook that same night: a desperate race to rescue […]

