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Political Philosophy, Religion, Reviews February 14, 2022 February 13, 2022

Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History

by Gabriel Neville

BOOK REVIEW: Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History by Katherine Carté (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute of Early American History…

Prewar Politics (<1775), Religion, Speeches and Addresses August 5, 2021 August 3, 2021

Election Sermons and Collective Identity in Massachusetts, 1760–1775

by Christopher Walton

“It is Hoped that this People will Unitedly Exert Themselves:”[1] In August 1765, crowds gathered on the streets of Boston protesting Parliament’s Stamp Act,…

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Constitutional Debate, Economics, Law, Politics, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Postwar Politics (>1783), Prewar Politics (<1775) September 14, 2020 September 14, 2020

The First Efforts to Limit the African Slave Trade Arise in the American Revolution: Part 1 of 3, The New England Colonies

by Christian McBurney

The American Revolution changed the way Americans viewed one of the world’s great tragedies: the African slave trade. The long march to end the…

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1. Bob Ruppert King Frederick the Great and the American Colonies—Mit Complimenten Aweissen

Thank you for catching the misspelling. I typed it incorrectly. These were the words that King Frederick wrote in the margin of a letter, dated October 6, 1777, that Schulenberg…
2. Bruce Venter Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns

I think Pat Hannum does justice to Mark Lender's new book on Fort Ticonderoga in his review, but he omitted mentioning a major character in the book for the year…
3. Robert A Selig King Frederick the Great and the American Colonies—Mit Complimenten Aweissen

Salut - with all due respect but as far as I know "aweisen" is not a German word. If this is a quote I suspect the original reads: "abweisen", but…