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Friday, December 05, 2025

Tad Stoermer – "Resistance is not defined by what it opposes - but by what it refuses to surrender" - two videos.

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• Why The Founders Feared You This video is a superb summary of the 1786 Daniel Shay's Rebellion in western Massachussetts (Scotch-Iris...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

1776 and the (Scots) Irish - presentation by Professor Richard Bell

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 Loads of first class content in this sweeping overview - a Zoom presentation by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland. His ...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

The "Hearts of Steel" in South Carolina? A letter from the Lieutenant Governor, 3 August 1774

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A generation before the more celebrated United Irishmen movement, there had been earlier militant groups in Ulster. One of those groups was...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Thomas Paine 1796 letter, citing the Glorious Revolution

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In his infamous letter to former President, George Washington ( online here ), Thomas Paine accused him of having been as deceitful during ...
Monday, December 01, 2025

"A war serves a nationalist purpose – a revolution threatens it"

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This is iconoclastic stuff, a response to the new Ken Burns series The American Revolution,  by Tad Stoermer , which he calls "nationa...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Bridget Lisle – Cotton Mather & Samuel Sewall: the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion & the 1689 Boston Revolt

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Bridget Lisle 's life is hard to fathom – her father was shot dead by order of one king, her mother was beheaded by order of the next ki...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thomas Jefferson's Music - "The music of Scotland may almost be called the national music of Virginia"

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 This is a superb article, from Slate magazine in 2012 : "... In 1838, his spunky granddaughter Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge wrote i...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

"It is most certain that all Men, as they are the Sons of Adam, are Coheirs; and have equal Right unto Liberty, and all other outward Comforts of Life." - Samuel Sewall, Boston, 1700

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Samuel Sewall was in England at the time of the Boston Revolt  of April 1689 – his Diary  ( online here ) shows that he had set sail from Bo...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

"The Revolution in New England Justified, and the People there Vindicated" - 1688 & 1776 again

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Another superb source! Following the Boston Revolt of April 1689 (when, following the arrival of copies of William Prince of Orange's De...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

"the three strands of political thought that shaped America’s founding - Lockean liberalism, classic republicanism, and Protestant Christianity"

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T his 2022 article by Kevin DeYoung on World News Group is worth a read... The founders' emphasis on liberty was not a rejection of C...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Professor David Armitage on the 1688 & 1776 connections - "move beyond nationalist paradigms"

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I saw this Zoom broadcast, hosted by the National Army Museum in London, back in April of this year. Professor David Armitage  ( Harvard w...
Monday, November 03, 2025

The 1689 London Baptist Confession, and the aftermath of King James II's 1685 'Bloody Assizes'

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Above: the 50 locations of 315 public executions during King James II's 'Bloody Assizes', August - December 1685. ...............
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Gideon Blackburn (1772-1838) - "The great Elijah of our day" / Cherokee chief Doublehead / John Gloucester

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Gideon Blackburn was born in Augusta County, Virginia - on the cusp of the Revolution and three years before his community expressed their ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Sydney George Fisher - "The True History of the American Revolution" (1902)

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Ropey history is nothing new. In 1898, Pennsylvania author Sydney George Fisher  (1856-1927; Wikipedia here ) incurred the ire of the Scotch...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

"The cause of liberty and the rights of mankind" – The Presbyterian Synod resumes its 'Pastoral Letter', 24 May 1783

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Just after American Revolutionary war had begun, the Presbyterian Synod which covered all of the 13 Colonies issued its historic 'Pastor...