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Author reminds Americans that Samuel Adams was a revolutionary before he was a beer

Adams' historical importance is often overlooked because he didn't keep copies of his own letters. Stacy Schiff's superb new biography explores his crucial role in inciting the American Revolution.

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In the Broadway musical '1776,' the revolution is in the casting

This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, nonbinary and trans — people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.

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Review: Broadway's '1776' is at war with its own material

NEW YORK — As directed by by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus, the revival of the 1969 musical “1776,” which opened last week at the Roundabout Theatre, is the latest entry in the current trend of blowing up the baked-in optimism of the American musical theater.

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A love of the Brokenback range drove a Hunter Valley artist to create a poignant body of work

The intimate exhibition space of a former corridor in the old section of Maitland Regional Art Gallery has been filled with another level of intimacy.

Newcastle Herald

Economist alleges corporate watchdog ASIC is only investigating tiny proportion of complaints

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has experienced years of upheaval and a heavy workload after the banking royal commission. An economist's analysis suggests the independent body is only investigating a fraction of complaints.

ABC News

Facts come to the rescue in the age of gaslighting

The search for truth is complicated: There are many versions of it, many disagreements about what it even means. The idea of fact is something we feel better prepared to defend on objective grounds.

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Classical home listening: Igor Levit takes on Tristan; an ideal John Adams primer

Levit ranges from Wagner to Henze with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, while Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich celebrate their artist-in-residence

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What's on this weekend at Hunter galleries

Art Systems Wickham Infinite Never Never, by Rebecca Rath. Until September 18. Blackstone Gallery In The Lap of the Gods, Frances Johnston, until September 24. Curve Gallery Jane Lander, Zoe Tjanavaras, Amy Vidler. Charlestown Library Portraits of Crime, by Damien Linnane, explores how we judge the action of past criminal…

Newcastle Herald

The hidden world of an opera prompter

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

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MOVIE REVIEW: We rock out to spellbinding horror 'Hellbender'

Family affair is peculiar beast with energetic tunes and endearing chemistry between real-life mother and daughter.

Daily Record

John Adams sets Shakespeare's play about love and politics

When composer John Adams decided to base his new work on Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” he was aware that the project might evoke an unhappy chapter in opera history

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DNA from newspaper letter solves 34-year-old cold case

58-year-old who died in 2018 identified as killer 35 years after murder

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How Georgia reduced heat-related high school football deaths

Starting practice at the hottest time of year, football players face dangers from the heat. Georgia high school heat rules have turned the state into a national model.

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David McCullough: Master chronicler of American history

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer turned out hugely popular tomes during his 50-year career, writing about his nation’s ‘good and the bad, the high accomplishments and the skulduggery’

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R.I.P. David McCullough, Who Saw the Bright Side of History

McCullough didn't just build on academic historians' work—he filled a gap they left.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough dies at 89

David McCullough, best-selling author and renowned historian who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of presidents John Adams and Harry Truman, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on Monday.

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Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough has died

He wrote acclaimed books about Harry Truman and John Adams, along with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal. He also was the authoritative voice narrating TV films such as The Civil War in 1990.

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David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary

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David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: What did Peter Brook and Richard Taruskin have in common? Next to nothing and everything

Director Peter Brook and musicologist Richard Taruskin were transformative figures, and fixtures, in their fields. While alive they were too unalike — separated by age, temperament and activities — to tempt us to connect them in any way. Yet their deaths a day apart at the beginning of July placed…

The Guardian - UK

Conrad Tao review – full-blooded piano playing with a dash of quirk

Tao’s programme exploited his talents to the full, including a ‘pandemic repertoire’ of Beethoven, Adams and Tao himself

The Independent UK

Plans for center to honor Presidents Adams and Quincy Adams

A Boston suburb that was the birthplace of two of the nation’s earliest presidents is planning to build a center honoring their legacies

Reason

The Founders Loved Jury Trials. Almost No One Gets One Anymore.

John Adams called jury trials part of the "heart and lungs of liberty." Today, defendants are often punished for exercising that very right.

The Independent UK

Fourth of July 2023: Which three US presidents died on Independence Day?

US celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence and remembers the Founding Fathers who made it possible

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Facts About The American Revolution: Jefferson, Betsy Ross And The Ethiopian Regiment

In the classic movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of the characters offers the statement “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

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