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The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of natural law, natural rights, consent of the governed, individualism, property rights, self-ownership, self-determination, liberalism, republicanism, and defense against corruption.
From the American Revolution to today, get patriotic with these presidential trivia questions and answers, which may stump even the biggest history buffs!
"Review of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, TaylorAlan; The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, TaylorAlan; The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832, TaylorAlan; American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750 ...
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution is a nonfiction book by historian Gordon S. Wood, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1991. In the book, Wood explores the radical character of the American Revolution. The book was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] Wood divided the narrative into three parts: monarchy, republicanism, and ...
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 is a nonfiction book about the American Revolution written by American historian Robert Middlekauff.Covering the history of the American Revolution from around 1760 through to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, The Glorious Cause focuses mainly on the military history of the American Revolutionary War and on the ...
In response to continued British interference with American shipping (including the practice of impressment of American sailors into the British Navy), and to British aid to American Indians in the Old Northwest, the Twelfth Congress—led by Southern and Western Jeffersonians—declared war on Britain in 1812. Westerners and Southerners were ...
Midway through Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s stirring documentary “9to5: The Story of a Movement,” Jane Fonda briefly appears as the film’s most famous talking head. Remembering the ...