John Dickinson and the Letter to Canada
After the French and Indian War the British government made a number of decisions with respect as to how it would govern its North…
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The Lonely Vigil of America’s First Diplomat
After the French and Indian War, or the Seven Years War as it was known in Europe, Spain and France began to plan for…
John Joachim Zubly: PART 3, A Patriot Essayist Whose Cause Was Lost
In the 1760s and through 1775 John J. Zubly was the leading Whig in Georgia. He wrote a number of sermons and political tracts…
John Joachim Zubly: PART 2, A Patriot Congressman Whose Cause Was Lost
Georgia did not send a delegation to the first Continental Congress in 1774. The least populous colony of the thirteen British colonies in North…
John Joachim Zubly: PART 1, A Patriot Minister Whose Cause Was Lost
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), a French philosopher, once said that the definition of a traitor was “a patriot whose cause was lost.” In the time…
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Charles Thomson and the Delaware
There are many, many founding fathers in the story of America’s Revolution and unfortunately only a few are really known to the general public….
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Joseph Galloway’s Plan of Union
Late in September 1774 the Continental Congress was in the middle of an ongoing debate on the means that should be implemented to restore…
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Undeceived: Who Would Write the Political Story of the Revolution?
In July 1783 John Jay, one of the Americans negotiating a treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, was sitting at…
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How America Declared its Rights
During the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century the political philosophers of Europe were writing and discussing some new and radical ideas on…
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Massachusettensis and Novanglus: The Last Great Debate Prior to the American Revolution
When John Adams returned to Massachusetts after the session of the First Continental Congress, he was surprised to find that there was growing opposition…