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How the American Revolution started a chain reaction
You are familiar with the story of the American Revolution. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and co. duking it out against King George III. It began after Britain ...
"Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he ...
Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...
Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner who ...
Editor’s note: The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This story is part of the Cardinal News 250: Virginia’s Stories project supported, in part, by a grant from ...
A portrait of Jonas Phillips. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the American Revolution and the American Jewish Historical Society) In the summer of 1776, Philadelphia was in the process of changing ...
We Don’t Know Where We Are in the Political Cycle Happy 250th Birthday to the Few, the Proud, the Marines Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N. He teaches that grandeur and wonderment abound ...
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" : religion and the American Revolution -- "No king but King Jesus" : the Great Awakening and the first American Revolution ...
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