A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America’s War of Independence. Introduction We think we know...
American Revolution
What do the ghosts of that bloody history whisper to us now? At this moment that feels...
Mackintosh played a key role in riots and other events related to the protest and eventual repeal...
These acts worked, inadvertently, towards unifying colonists against British policy. Abstract The purpose of my project is...
It can be traced, in part, to the Enlightenment and its profound impact on colonial thinking. Political...
The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia in what is now Vermont in the decade prior...
Soldiers were typically yeoman farmers with a sense of honor and status and an ideological commitment to...
The term has also been applied to various later civilian paramilitary forces trying to recall the success...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
Even after his death in 1790, Franklin remained an American celebrity. Introduction Born in Boston on January...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
Warren was an eloquent, persuasive polemicist who died a martyr at Bunker Hill. By Michael McQuillan “I’m...
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, 17 June, 1775, by John Trumbull...
John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, 1786–1820, oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 31...
This painting depicts the forces of British Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) (who was...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – The Second Continental Congress 1.1 – Introduction...
Engraving of the Boston Tea Party by E. Newberry, 1789 / New York Public Library Edited by...
George Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1851) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York...
Baron von Steuben at Valley Forge, 1777, by Augustus G. Heaton, 1907 / National War College By Mrs. Harriet...