Pt. 1: Introduction -- The significance and problems of the Revolution -- Historians and the Revolution -- A guide to the bibliography of the Revolution -- Pt. 2: causes -- The imperialist ...
For those who, after witnessing several America 250 celebrations, still do not have the answer as to how a young country was ...
Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Joseph Ellis explains how in the early stages of the war, the British and the colonists referred to the war using different terms and why this ...
The Stamp Act and taxes on American colonists lead to unrest and threaten to cause a revolution. To reduce debt suffered from the Seven Years' War, Britain levies several new taxes on American ...
Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...
This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...
“A Glorious Cause” programs will elucidate not only significant historical figures and events of the American Revolution—including those with local ties like Francis Marion, Thomas Lynch, and the ...