What do you think you know about the American Revolution? Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, hornsw...
11.12.2025 Latimes.com
I thought I’d pass along an item I came across in the 1856 reminiscences of a Philadelphia lawyer (David Paul Brown, The Forum, or, Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar , vol. 1, p. 365),...
11.11.2025 Ifttt.itbehere.com and 4 sites
Given the physical demands of military service, it’s no surprise that several of America’s prominent veterans were also star athletes. From the playing fields to the battlefields, they displayed coura...
11.11.2025 Nhjournal.com and 3 sites
Abraham Lincoln was twenty-nine years old when he addressed a group of young men in Illinois, trying to warn them about what he considered to be a dangerous trend toward the “mobocratic” in American s...
11.07.2025 Americanthinker.com
9 November 9, 1775: Washington’s Concerns Over Smallpox and the quebec Expedition’s Struggles On this day in 1775, the Continental Army faced challenges on multiple fronts, prompting critical correspondence from General George Washington . Concerns over public health and the logistical difficulties of military campaigns were paramount as the American Revolution progressed. Washington’s fears of a Smallpox Outbreak General George Washington penned a letter to James Warren, a leading figure in the...
11.09.2025 Archynewsy.com
This week in Revolutionary War history, let’s check up on what was going on 250 years ago in and around the colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay. Never uneventful, last week, delegates from the Cont...
11.10.2025 Wanderer.comThere's a quotation attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt that, no matter who said it first, I've always liked. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ” For my...
11.12.2025 Adaged.blogspot.com
You don't need to be a historian to know that the U. S. Navy was literally born in East Greenwich, at least according to East Greenwich. The claim confronts anyone who visits the town website, looks a...
11.10.2025 Providencejournal.com
James Armistead Lafayette: The Enslaved Spy Who Secured the American Revolution Espionage, Enslavement, and the Hidden Architect of America’s Victory at Yorktown --> November 7, 2025 15 min read Engra...
11.07.2025 Brewminate.com