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Studying history is an interesting endeavor, because the people who lived during the historical time period one studies are generally no longer alive to affirm or deny how historical events unfolded. We are generally left with the writings that were left behind, and the authors who interpret those writings, if written materials even still exist. It generally comes down to faith, and who you believe to be giving an accurate account of historical facts. When it comes to the history of the United S...

Oregon veterans celebrate 4th at revolutionary war veteran’s grave July 4, 2021 8:01 PM Tahleel Mohieldin OREGON, Wis. — A group of veterans, their families, and community members gathered at a cemetery in Oregon to honor veterans this fourth of July. Event Organizer Ben Hobbins said they chose Prairie Mound Cemetery because it hosts the grave of Wisconsin’s last surviving revolutionary war veteran Nathaniel Ames.” The cemetery here has dozens of American vetera...

presbyterian in new jersey. and he writes a brief vindication of the purchasers, the people who bought the land against the proprietors in a christian manner in 1746. and this is what he tells the proprietors. the strictly just thought id join the land and think not by self discharge for the duty of righteous as for the neighbor by an extraordinary measure of pretended zeal and piety towards god coveted the beginning of this misrule and mistake that happened among us. it is plain cause...

>> i am delighted to introduce our panel about her this afternoon. barbara clark smith is our scholar from the smithsonian. she is curator of the division of political hiss or at the national museum of american history. her new book is "the freedoms we lost" consent and resistance in revolutionary america. in this and other publications, clark smith writes about politics and a sharp social historian site for drama and detail. she co-curated a favorite exhibition of mine called jamestow...

it is quote, the most inestimable lesson that mankind can enjoy. and this author in the 17th century englishman, about 1680s the original, that they should think highly of government. they should insist that the dr. rhee for the happiness and security of all. and so they said, if there be any form of government amongst non-with the supreme magistrate is not vested with enough power to protect the people and promote their prosperity or if there be any such constitution as enables the pr...

em? what ideas of liberty did they bring with them? to answer them im going to share three quotations, and there are just a few papers out there with copies of them, but ill read them for you. to give you an idea of the scope and the nature of the argument im making. the first quotation comes from the independent advertiser which is a newspaper put out by a young samuel adams in boston in the late 1740s. lot of english authorities. he often doesnt actually attribute them, he just runs ...