African American soldiers played an important part in the American Revolution. This lesson will look at some of the ways in which they participated...
The Radicalism of the American Revolution vs. the French Rev essays"It is indeed true that our Revolution was strikingly unlike that of France, and that most of those who originated it had no other than political programme." The American and French Rev
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Transcendentalism was a movement in philosophy, literature, and religion that emerged and was popular in nineteenth-century New England because of a need to redefine man and his place in the world in response to a new and changing society. The industrial revolution, universities, westward expansion...
That the American Revolution had psychological in addition to economic roots is a notion only recently entertained by historians. Besides such obvious facts as the total absence of economic matters (or for that matter of the supposed issue of “no taxation without repre...
This issue, after all, was one of the primary reasons for the American revolution against King George's usurpations. I hate to think that the previous tax cuts and deregulation that Trump obtained will be blamed for the bad economic results of the Trump tariffs. He confuses us when he ...
That the Tory contribution to the policies which provoked the American Revolution is easily forgotten is largely the result of the superficially negligible strength of the old Tory party by this time. It is difficult, for example, to point to a single minister or a single measure capable of be...
Can’t we just suck the 900 billion tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere that we have spewed since the beginning of the industrial revolution? No. It bears repeating that the spiking Keeling curve is non-reversible on human timescales. “We sadly continue to break records in the CO2 rise ...
When seed cotton was fed into the box and the cylinder was revolved, the sharp wires passing between the slats would engage the lint and pull it through as they passed out in the further revolution of the cylinder. The seed, which were too large to pass through the grating, would stay ...
Much was going on around the colonies throughout the eve of the Revolution. The extent to which the colonists had developed a sense of an American identity was strong, however, their unity was weak.An American identity was becoming stronger and stronger as the days went by leading up to the...