American Revolution
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Early Draft of Constitution found in Philadelphia
One of the thrills of delving into any historical archives is holding a piece of history in your hands. I remember when I ...3 comments
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The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of the American Revolution
To be sure, Americans have always been against large standing armies, yet we are the poster child for the Military Industrial Complex. ...0 comments
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Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, by Ray Raphael came out earlier this year by The New Press and I am finally getting to read ...1 comment
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The Historian’s Perspective
The latest issue of the Gilder Lehrman Institute's online magazine History Now centers on the studying and teaching of the American Revolution. Here's a list of those articles: Teaching the Revolution, by Carol ...2 comments
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Who is Oxenbridge Thacher?
O.K., a simple google search and one can find that he was a Boston resident, a lawyer in fact, and with a little more searching he was a friend of John Adams. He also wrote ...3 comments
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Troubling A.P. Text and Supplementals…
So I have been going through the A.P. textbook and other materials and I am becoming somewhat troubled by how the authors present several topics (which I will get into later.) However, most troubling are ...5 comments
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July 3rd, 1776
I know that I have been focusing on the Battle of Gettysburg the last few days, but my heart is with the Founding Fathers; and more so than ever it seems in light of recent ...2 comments
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American Exceptionalism
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Elvis Presley – The King – at 75
Elvis would have been 75 today, happy birthday to the King of Rock and Roll! My mother was a huge Elvis fan and I have ...0 comments
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The “Myth” of American Exceptionalism
I was called out in an email by a reader (this is not an attack as I respect this reader and hence why I am not ...3 comments
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American Exceptionalism: Tibor “Ted” Rubin
“I always wanted to become a citizen of the United States and when I became a citizen it was one of the happiest days in my ...0 comments
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Teaching Social Justice in the Classroom?
I took the week off to get some things accomplished that I needed to, so my apologies for a lack of posting, but I have been ...5 comments
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Gettysburg & Mr. Dreyfuss
It looks like Mr. Dreyfuss had a nice day recently at Gettysburg as he continued his crusade championing American civics and history instruction. Last Friday ...6 comments
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Politically Correct Non-Myth Busting?: The Iroquois and the American Constitution
Some historians and wanna be historians love to do the "I told you so" in regards to American history. They love to point out how Lincoln ...6 comments
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American Exceptionalism?
A week or so ago the Pew Global Attitudes Project released a study titled "The Pulse of Europe 2009: 20 Years After the Fall of ...3 comments