American Revolution – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Thu, 14 May 2026 03:32:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg American Revolution – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Patriotism, Loyalism, and Neutrality in the American Revolution https://brewminate.com/american-revolution-patriotism-loyalism-neutrality/ Thu, 14 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=273158 Patriotism in the American Revolution was never unanimous, emerging instead through contested loyalty, organized power, coercion, neutrality, and

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]]> Civil Disobedience and the Road to Revolution: American Resistance before 1776 https://brewminate.com/civil-disobedience-and-the-road-to-revolution-american-resistance-before-1776/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:02:41 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265736 The American Revolution was not born on a battlefield but in the refusal to obey. Civil disobedience, as

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]]> Bloody John Bacon: The Last Loyalist Outlaw of the American Revolution https://brewminate.com/bloody-john-bacon-the-last-loyalist-outlaw-of-the-american-revolution/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:02:24 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265652 When Captain John Bacon fell in 1783, he took with him the last embers of Loyalist resistance in

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]]> James Armistead Lafayette: The Enslaved Spy Who Secured the American Revolution https://brewminate.com/james-armistead-lafayette-the-enslaved-spy-who-secured-the-american-revolution/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:00:57 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265665 James Armistead Lafayette’s life is a testament to how the ideals of the American Revolution were both realized

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]]> From Faith to Reason: The Enlightenment’s Legacy in the Founding of America https://brewminate.com/from-faith-to-reason-the-enlightenments-legacy-in-the-founding-of-america/ Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:04:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265256 By transferring moral and political legitimacy from revelation to reason, the Enlightenment recast the relationship between the human

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]]> Rebellion and the Republic: The Violent Origins of American Liberty https://brewminate.com/rebellion-and-the-republic-the-violent-origins-of-american-liberty/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:29:49 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265202 The American Republic emerged from violence not as an accident but as its creative condition. The Revolution fused

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]]> Liberty Tree Rising: How the Loyal Nine and a Boston Gang Sparked a Revolution https://brewminate.com/liberty-tree-rising-how-the-loyal-nine-and-a-boston-gang-sparked-a-revolution/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:26:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=264917 By the time British troops felled the Liberty Tree in 1775, the movement it had nourished had already

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]]> McCulloch v. Maryland: Federal Power and Reimagining State Sovereignty in the Early Republic https://brewminate.com/mcculloch-v-maryland-federal-power-and-reimagining-state-sovereignty-in-the-early-republic/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:04:05 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=264808 By the time John Marshall left the bench in 1835, the nation he had helped to shape bore

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]]> Forging an Army: George Washington and the Struggle to Build the Continental Forces https://brewminate.com/forging-an-army-george-washington-and-the-struggle-to-build-the-continental-forces/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:01:42 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263094 George Washington’s genius did not rest in tactical brilliance alone. His achievement was to hold together an army

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]]> The Word They Feared, the Ideal They Practiced: Democracy and the American Founding https://brewminate.com/the-word-they-feared-the-ideal-they-practiced-democracy-and-the-american-founding/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:06:05 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=262114 Today, the quarrel over whether the United States is a democracy or a republic repeats an old anxiety.

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