Excavating the LGBT history of Colonial Williamsburg.

December 22, 2019 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, HEROES & HISTORY, HISTORY Comments Off on Excavating the LGBT history of Colonial Williamsburg.
“Desire is nothing new,” says Michael Bronski, a historian at Harvard University. (Image: COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG)

ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1777, PRUSSIAN military officer Baron Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived in America with his French live-in secretary and interpreter, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. Von Steuben had been summoned by Benjamin Franklin to train the Continental Army, at a time when…