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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Another early 1700s usage of the term 'Scotch Irish'

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With thanks to the friend who sent me this: "They call themselves Scotch Irish, and the bitterest railers against the Church [of Englan...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Jake the Lawyer - breaking down the Declaration of Independence, and explaining the Bill of Rights

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 These YouTube presentations are excellent – energetic, detailed, fun where appropriate, informal, yet information-rich.
Thursday, December 11, 2025

William Findley, Ulster-born, Scotch Irish, Pennsylvanian 'Anti-Federalist'

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William Findley was born in Co Antrim, and was one of the strongest voices to challenge the potential overreach of the proposed new United S...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Fascism thrives on "Mythic History - a Golden Age that never really existed"

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Here's another short video from Professor Tad Stoermer , majoring on the 1789 Bill of Rights as an act of resistance against the possib...
Monday, December 08, 2025

December 1775 and the US Navy: From the "Colonies" to the Copeland Islands

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250 years ago this month, the American 'Continental' Navy was born and a new flag, "The Grand Union" was created. It was ...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Patrick Henry - Liberty's Champion – from Declaration to Revolution to Constitution to Bill of Rights

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Patrick Henry is one of the biggest names in the story of the American Revolution. His father, Colonel   John Henry , had been born in Aber...
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...