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How did America Get its Name? If Columbus Discovered it, Should the People Be called Columbians?

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Toward The Setting Sun - New World Discovery: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and The Race For America - David Boyle

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Gunpowder Expedition May 2-4 1775: Governor Dunmore Seizes Virginia Gunpowder; Threatens to Free Slaves

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Redcoats Retreat April 19 1775: Percy's Rescue: Kings Own, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 47th Foot, Marines

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Battle of Concord - April 19 1775: Rude Awakening - British Troops First Shot Down at Old North Bridge

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Lexington Alarm April 19 1775: Minutemen in Minute Battle of Lexington and Concord is Next Target!

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Midnight Ride of Abel Benson: A Slave's Child Uses His Trumpet and Voice: "The Regulars Are Out!"

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Two if by Sea on April 18, 19 1775: Thomas Gage Orders Capture of John Hancock, Sam Adams and the Powder

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Forgotten Midnight Riders: 18th of April in 75 Hardly a Man Recalls Patriots Longfellow Ignored

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Midnight Riders, April 19 1775: Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott and More Sound the Alarm

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! Patrick Henry's Speech Electrifies Virginia's Patriots March 23 1775

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Leslie's Retreat - Salem, MA, 1775: British Colonel Alexander Leslie Fails to Capture Rebel Cannon

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Colonial Tax Policy in Plain Words: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #7: Taxation is Equal to Slavery

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Tax Law in British America: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #6: No Precedence For AmericanTax

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Regulators of North Carolina: Vigilante Groups Take Neglect of Justice Into Their Own Hands!

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Sugar Act Passes Parliament 1764: British Law to Specifically Collect Revenue Without Colonial Consent

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Albany Plan of Union 1754: Looming French and Indian War Fosters British Colonial Unity

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The British Empire's Parental Role: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #5: Will Child Be Friend or Foe?

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Taxes and Consent of the Governed: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #4: Are External Taxes Legal?

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Quartering Act of 1765 Refuted: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #2: Defines Colonial Taxation

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Townshend Acts of 1767: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #2: An Unconstitutional Tax

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Farmer Calls For American Unity: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer #3: Warning: Freedom Will Be Lost

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Boston Massacre March 5 1770: 5 Men Killed; Growing Tensions Erupt; Redcoats Fire at Civilian Mob

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The First Continental Congress: A Declaration of Rights: What Unified American Colonies October 1774

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Parliament Hears Colonial Protest: Lord Chatham Argues for Petition From The First Continental Congress

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Shots Not Heard 'Round the World: The First Battle of the American Revolution at Fort William and Mary

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Quiet Dutch Colonial Influence: New Amsterdam’s Contributions to American Culture and Society

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Ohio Company; Proclamation of 1763: Appalachian Boundary for Indian Territory Causes Revolutionary War

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Mary Dyer, Quaker Martyr, Hangs: Condemned to Die in 1660, Woman Pleads Her Case for The Inner Light

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Are Pilgrims and Puritans the Same: Different Religious Beliefs, Philosophy, Politics, and Geography

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Bacon's Rebellion – 1676: Virginia’s Revolutionary Heritage or a Prodigious Power Play?

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Chief Pontiac's War - 1763: Native Americans Valued Liberty Long Before the American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Network Communications History: Samuel Adam's Network of Liberty is First American Internet

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Revolutionary Mindset: What Caused Regular People to Fight in the American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

No Taxation Without Representation: Virtual Representation Rejected; Radicals See Cause for Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Revolutionary Republican Values: Enlightenmen, Reason, Roman Influence Cause the American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

European Immigration to America: English Not the Only People Searching For Revolutionary Freedom

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Writs of Assistance - James Otis: Firestorm Over British Colonial Laws Cause the American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Join or Die! Live Free or Die! Inspirational Phrases State a Political Case for Revolutionary War

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Southern Aristocrats Values: Plantation Owner Debt; Major Economic Causes of American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Slavery and the Revolutionary War: An Officer in American Revolution Attempts to Free Carolina Slaves

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

British-American Middle Class: The Colonists Who Were the Economic Cause of the American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Church of Scotland: The Kirk: Presbyterian Church: Religious Causes of the American Revolution

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Puritan Belief Political Ideaology: A Shining City: Puritan Pride on the American Revolution Time Line

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

The Great Awakening 1739-1740: American Soul is Born Again to Revolutionary Religious Independence

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

William Penn and Quaker Beliefs: Founder of Pennsylviania Creates a Religious Society of Friends

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

Origin Causes American Revolution: Colonial America Embraced Freedom Long Before the Revolutionary War

By: Feature Writer Roger Saunders

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