Categories for History
American Revolution, History
Forgotten Founders: John Dickinson, Part 3
In Part 1, I introduced you to John Dickinson, the “Penman of the Revolution” who became a Forgotten Founder by refusing to vote for independence. In Part 2, I showed… Read More
Civil War, History, Videos
The Story Behind Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Watch this short film featuring Las Vegas bookseller Greg Hicks with a great story about the publication of Grant’s Memoirs. Read More
American Revolution, History
Forgotten Founders: John Dickinson, Part 2
In Part 1, I explained why John Dickinson, the “Penman of the Revolution,” became a Forgotten Founder. In Parts 2 and 3, I’ll show you some of Dickinson’s most important… Read More
American Revolution, History
Forgotten Founders: John Dickinson, Part 1
John Dickinson, the “Penman of the Revolution,” was the most prolific and influential political writer of the period and a famous defender of American rights and liberties. Thomas Jefferson wrote… Read More
American Revolution, History
Forgotten Founders: George Mason, Part 2—1787
In Part 1, I introduced you to George Mason and his 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights and Virginia Constitution, and their extraordinary influence on the Declaration of Independence and the… Read More
American Revolution, History
Forgotten Founders: George Mason, Part 1— 1776
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton— These are the big six, the famous names we immediately think of as America’s Founding Fathers. They were… Read More
American Revolution, History
American Ephemera: Newspapers
You will see by the Newspapers, which I from time to time inclose, with what Rapidity, the Colonies proceed in their political Maneuvres. – John Adams letter to Abigail Adams,… Read More
American Revolution, History
American Ephemera: Broadsides
The Congress have judged it necessary to dissolve the Connection between Great Britain and the American Colonies, and to declare them free & independent States; as you will perceive by… Read More
American Revolution, History
American Ephemera: Pamphlets
My countrymen… will come reluctantly into the idea of independency, but time and persecution brings many wonderful things to pass; and by private letters which I have lately received from… Read More
American Revolution, History
American Ephemera: History as it Happened
What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the… Read More