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Georg Fein (1803 – 1869) was a German democratic journalist, an early German socialist and a liberal nationalist. He was a prominent publicist during the Vormärz period that preceded the Revolution of 1848 .
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.
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.
The American Revolution includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted
The William L. Clements Library is a rare book and manuscript repository located on the University of Michigan's central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Specializing in Americana and particularly North American history prior to the twentieth century, the holdings of the Clements Library are grouped into four categories: Books, Manuscripts, Graphics and Maps.
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded research library of history and the humanities on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. [1] The library's rare book, manuscript, and map collections encompass a variety of topics related to the history of European exploration and colonization of the New World until circa 1825.
The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle which runs a digital library website titled, archive.org. [2] [3] [4] It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, texts, and print materials.
The American Revolution: A World War (Smithsonian, 2018) Allison, Robert. The American Revolution: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-531295-9 [4] Aptheker, Herbert. The American Revolution 1763–1783: An Interpretation. New York: International Publishers, 1960. ISBN 978-0-7178-0005-6. (Marxist viewpoint.)