An Amazing Revolutionary Era Life Discovered!
Four years ago, I sat next to a dinner party guest and learned about an old journal passed down through generations by her family. The previously unstudied, but well-preserved journal […]
Category Archives: Liberty and Freedom
The Turbulent Beginnings of Paper Money
Book Review Greenberg, Joshua R. Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. American Business, Politics, and Society. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. With […]
A visit to Vermont’s Mt. Ethan Allen
The Green Mountains are Vermont’s most iconic images which dominate the vistas almost everywhere in the state. The second most iconic image is that of Green Mountain Boy Colonel Ethan […]
You can read US Grant’s Memoir to study the Civil War but you will learn more about leadership and character!
Book Review Grant, Ulysses S., John F. Marszalek, David S. Nolen, and Louie P. Gallo. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap […]
Revolutionary Leaders in the US Capitol Statuary Hall Collection
The United States Congress authorizes each state to place statues of two people in the Capitol. These statues form the National Statuary Hall Collection. Most statues are placed in the […]
The Battle of Brooklyn – The Revolutions most under recognized and misreported battle!
My vote for the most under recognized and misreported battle in the American Revolution goes to the Battle of Brooklyn. Even its name is misreported as many historians refer to […]
Reconsidering Two Colorful Revolutionary Reputations
Today, I am going to speak about two of our more colorful, but controversial revolutionary leaders. One is well known and one is not. Both of them entered the Revolutionary […]
How do you know a Great Book?
A sure fire way to answer this question is looking for books that sell more used than they did new. It is a simple measure of standing the test of time! […]
Examining Intimate Revolutionary Relationships
Unquestioningly, people assume that intimate relationships among the sexes in Revolutionary America were what we commonly refer to today as puritanical. Well that might have been the reality at one […]
A Review: Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
By Sebastian Galliani and Gustavo Torrens National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 22724 October 2016 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22724 A Review Combining academic disciplines often lead to innovative and interesting new […]
Early American History, Nature and The Human Spirit 