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Joseph Galloway’s Plan of Union
byLate 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?
byIn 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
byDuring 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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Native Americans at Valley Forge
byAt the Bethlehem Hospital near Valley Forge on November 21, 1777, John Ettwein visited a “Narragansett Indian in great distress about his soul, at…
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Documents of the Revolution: A Continuum of Conviction
byThose familiar with American history know that the Articles of Confederation served as the first constitution of the unified states during the American Revolution….
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Reconciliation between the Colonies and Great Britain—A Close Call
byThere were many attempts, before and during the American Revolution, to avoid armed conflict via negotiation, or to stop the war after it began….