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The US has always had ‘big government’ – even in the Colonial era
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBig government fans. John Trumbull/Grafissimo via Getty Images Paralyzed by its most radical...
Juneteenth’s Vision of Freedom Expresses American Values Better Than the Fourth of July’s
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeft: John Trumbull's painting, "Declaration of Independence," depicting the five-man drafting...
Gibraltar's defiant triumph in battle
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, John Trumbull. The Great Siege of Gibraltar occurred between 1779 and 1783, and though it happened during...
How the British ‘Southern Strategy’ ultimately cost them the Revolutionary War
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSurrender of General Burgoyne, an 1822 portrait by John Trumbull depicting John Burgoyne, a British...
An Ohio man spent 4 years building a riverside castle, only to move out 2 years after completing it....
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe exterior of the home.Courtesy of Effler/Schmitt Co Bradley Delp spent four years building a...
Opinion: What will you contemplate on July 4? Tell us in a letter
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe yearning for self-government in our founding document takes on new urgency amid insurrection and...
Many American Revolutionaries were younger than you'd think when they declared independence from...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWashington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26,...
How Christianity Influenced America’s Notions of Equality
Time via Yahoo News· 6 months ago"'All men are created equal' coexisted comfortably with the understanding that not all were meant to...
Six Canadian battles shaped by weather and climate
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOn Saturday, November 11, Canadians will observe Remembrance Day, 105 years after the armistice that ended the First World War. That conflict took a...
A brief history of the American Revolution
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEngraving of Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth. | Wikimedia Commons Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off...
