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Taverns were used as recruitment stations for colonial militias and meeting places for the “seedbeds” of the American Revolution.

The necessity of confronting woundedness and recovering passion.

Though forgotten today, he paved the way for abolitionists like Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce.  When Clarkson and eleven Quakers sat down at a print-shop table to create the Society for the Abolition in 1787, he was the man they thanked.

How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.

The mass hysteria of the New York Panic of 1741 is evidence that slave-keepers knew and understood the evil of slavery.

A new addition to the classics of Quaker spiritual autobiography.

Years ago, some people in the then-nascent United States thought sequoias were made up, a flora that existed only in fantasy.

Writing a spiritual autobiography can help you gain insight into your spiritual life. Quakers have written spiritual autobiographies since the 1600s. Learn how.

The first few miles along Purdon Road in North San Juan are dense forests. It doesn’t seem possible that there could be farms out here, but indeed there are. Honey Circle farm is right off…

A graphic biography of a radical, simple-living vegetarian abolitionist.