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Commentary: Why the American Revolution still matters
The Revolution was one of the most important historical events of the past 2,000 years. It established the world’s most ...
Writings on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution
Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of ...
The American Revolution sprang not from individualism, but from the Bible
The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...
A revolutionary reimagining of American identity for the Fourth of July
Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...
1775 and the forgotten man of the American Revolution
In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...
Contributor: How martial law made the American Revolution
Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...
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SC play tells story of Gullah Geechee experience during Revolutionary War
When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops ...
Actor Kurt Russell makes Fourth of July visit to Arlington home of ancestor killed in Revolutionary War
The home, which was built by Jason Russell, was the site of the bloodiest battle of the first day of the American Revolution ...
Patriots on the fringe: Florida's role in American Revolution shown in books
While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...
The Guns (and Soldiers) That Won the American Revolution
The tide of the war rose in Washington’s favor as his troops became more ex­perienced and proficient in just this type of ...