Blogs Posts on "American Revolution"

Street smarts: the American revolution by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 7, 2009Grover helps Thomas Jefferson meet a deadline: Click here to view the embedded video. Grover and George Washington plan a surprise: Click here to view the embedded video. Choosing a national bird: Click here to view the embedded video.

2 Sides of the American Revolution by Happening History Class on Oct 2, 2009In almost every historical story there is a winner and a loser. Often we simply hear the winner's perspective: how great they are, how they overcame adversity or immediately crushed their opponent, and how they had the right idea. We never hear abo...

Nicholas Biddle by Encyclopedia Blog on Sep 23, 2009American financier. As president (1822-1836) of the second Bank of the United States, Biddle was the chief antagonist of President Andrew Jackson in the Bank War of the 1830’s. Biddle was born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family. After...

The Leaderless Revolution by ARRA News Service on Aug 4, 2009ALG News Editorial: A revolution is taking place in America. It’s as intangible as the whispering wind. Yet as ineluctable as mounting gale. To the politicians, it’s still but a passing breeze rustling the hair at the nape of the neck. To the gra...

Zinn’s view of the American Revolution by Rupee News on Jul 7, 2009There are things that happen in the world that are bad, and you want to do something about them. You have a just cause. But our culture is so war prone that we immediately jump from, “This is a good cause” to “This deserves a war.&#...

Ecomomic Crisis? Don't Worry, Full Steam Ahead. by My Daily Rant on Jul 4, 2009Will US Legacy of Debt Spur Next Crisis? - AOL Money & Finance: "WASHINGTON (July 4) - The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It's the national debt.The country first got into debt to hel...

Plantation Kitchens by Hushpuppy Nation on Jun 6, 2009Before the revolution in cooking technology that occurred in the latter years of the nineteenth century, the Southern kitchen wasn’t a particularly pleasant place to be. From the founding of Jamestown until the middle of the nineteenth centurie...

The American Revolution by Understand America on Mar 18, 2009More than merely signaling America’s political dissolution from the British empire, the Revolution pegged the republic Americans would create to the expectations and principles of the Enlightenment: to Locke, to the classical and liberal republican...

A Close Look at the American Revolution by Understand America on Mar 14, 2009When in the 1660’s, the English Parliament began its first halting attempts at regulating the external commercial traffic of the colonies across the Atlantic, regulation of external commerce was not a new idea. Europeans governments had always kept...

Religious Radicalism as a Factor of the American Revolution by Understand America on Mar 14, 2009Forty years after the beginning of the American Revolution, the two most famous theorists of the Revolution, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, exchanged opinions on how the American colonies could have thrown off British rule so completely, and then...