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Algernon Sidney was a seventeenth-century British political theorist, Member of Parliament, and Whig politician who was executed for treason on December 7, 1683, during…
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The Articles of Confederation described the first government of the new United States. As one may imagine from understanding the later debates on the…
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The American Revolution spurred the world’s first significant movement to abolish slavery and the African slave trade.[1] Before then, there was virtually no antislavery…
The writings abridged below, all asserting reasons against the renewal of the Sugar Act, mark the end of the long period of the colonies…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author and historian J. L. Bell on the Declaration of Independence and which stories surrounding the document…
When we picture the Declaration of Independence, most of us immediately think of the document handwritten on parchment and signed at the bottom by…