Craig Fehrman is a journalist and historian. He is finishing a revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition, for Simon & Schuster. It’s one of Abigail Adams’s most famous lines. Early in 1776 ...
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The story of the Sons of Liberty, the clandestine group that sparked the American Revolution
On Dec. 16, 1773, over 100 men boarded a trio of ships in Boston Harbor. Once on board, they grabbed 342 chests full of tea — and tossed them into the water. The so-called Boston Tea Party was one of ...
On Aug. 24, 1815, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, reflecting chiefly on affairs in Europe and Napoleon’s fall from power, but including as well this observation on the American Revolution: “As ...
List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...
Also published in The Library of Economics and Liberty Wed. July 4, 2018. Editor's Noted: This article first appeared on Independent.org in 2018 and is reprinted with permission from The Library of ...
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" : religion and the American Revolution -- "No king but King Jesus" : the Great Awakening and the first American Revolution ...
Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...
Hundreds rallied outside the Museum of the American Revolution Thursday, protesting a summit hosted through this weekend in Philadelphia by conservative political group Moms for Liberty. Demonstrators ...
Assistant curator Trish Norman was absent the day the Museum of the American Revolution informed staff it would host a welcome reception for Moms for Liberty, the conservative group pushing to remove ...
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SC250 calls for teachers to participate in 2027 Liberty Day at the State House
CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Fourth-grade teachers across South Carolina are invited to apply for the 2027 Liberty Day, ...
In Malden, a liberty tree takes root again. Malden officials and community members gathered at the Forest Dale Cemetery recently to plant a Liberty Tree in honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of ...
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