Nearly twenty years after the revolutionary War began, the United States government faced a small-scale revolution by some of its own citizens. As in the previous war, taxes were a central issue. And ...

WAMPUM – On Thursday, Brady J. Crytzer is presenting a unique historical program at the Main Street Chapel & Events in the borough. Crytzer, author, historian and television/radio personality, will ...

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh-based columnist for the Washington Examiner. She is the author of "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics." LATROBE, Pennsylvania—The ...

LATROBE, Pennsylvania — The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the ...

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the ...

Pat Speth Sherman's "American Tapestry: Portrait of a 'Middling' Family, 1746-1934" touches on parts of Somerset County history revolving around the Whiskey Rebellion. Sherman delivers an account of ...

In this 2022 file photo, George Cholak, a Meadow Lands native, ties a ribbon around the liberty pole during the Whiskey Rebellion Festival in Washington. Reenactors from the Woodville Experience in ...

Just a few years after the Constitution was ratified, the fledgling U.S. government faced its first internal crisis. The Whiskey Rebellion erupted in response to Alexander Hamilton’s controversial ...

On Christmas Day 1794, an estimated 20,000 citizens lined the streets of Philadelphia to gawp and jeer as a score of bedraggled and shivering prisoners shuffled past under military escort. In the ...

A small-bore whiskey rebellion broke out this week. In defiance of President Truman’s wishes (but not of any binding order) most U.S. distillers resumed normal production for the first time since Oct.