Findley, who lived in Latrobe, petitioned the new government to repeal the 1791 whiskey tax, hoping to avoid violence against those charged with collecting it from farmers. By November 1794, things ...

In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group of white settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier, killed and scalped six Conestoga Indians living under the colonial government’s protection on a ...

In July of 1794, a force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector. The rebellion grew in numbers, if not in actions, and threatened to spread to other states.

Paul Guggenheimer Friday, July 12, 2019 7:50 p.m. | Friday, July 12, 2019 7:50 p.m. A multi-regional Whiskey Rebellion Trail some 225 years in the making launched in Pittsburgh’s Strip District ...

President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his ...

From the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791, when moonshiners and other whiskey-makers rebelled against the federal government to ...

As legal scholar Frank O. Bowman III pointed out: George Washington issued pardons in 1794 to defuse the lingering tensions of the defeated Whiskey Rebellion. President Andrew Johnson made ...