Showing posts with label 18th century (other). Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18th century (other). Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Why does the Declaration of Independence list so many grievances?

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“Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our colonies and plantations in North America … have at length proceeded to open and avowed...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The American Revolutionary War was fought on four different continents

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Even many British histories of the war tend (understandably) to gloss over this subject In the eighteenth century , the  British Empire  was...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

What are the Intolerable Acts?

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“An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in Ameri...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Piracy played a role, early in the “Second” Hundred Years’ War

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“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village [Hannibal, Missouri] on the west bank of the Missis...
Friday, July 4, 2025

In defense of the American Founding Fathers

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“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Colonial Canada: From the Seven Years’ War to the War of 1812

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“An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America …” – Long title of the “Quebec Ac...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

The Constitution of Massachusetts influenced the national Constitution

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“We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in a...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

The Continental Congresses: The backstory of the United States Congress

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“An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America , towards furth...
Friday, April 19, 2019

A review of “Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America”

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“... That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the ...
Friday, March 1, 2019

How different was the Constitution from the “Articles of Confederation”?

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“The Stile of this Confederacy shall be ' The United States of America '.” – Article I of the “Articles of Confederation and per...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

How did the Virginia Declaration of Rights influence the Bill of Rights?

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“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights , of which, when they enter into a state of...
Monday, May 28, 2018

A review of “The War That Made America”

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"Since the English have in their power an officer and two cadets, and, in general all the prisoners whom they took when [they] assas...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

A review of “Liberty! The American Revolution” and “The Revolution”

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"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the ...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

A review of “Founding Brothers” (History Channel)

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

The Founding Fathers and the History Channel

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The History Channel has made a few documentaries about the lives of the  Founding Fathers . There is one in particular that I would like t...