In 1630, a man named John Winthrop set sail with a small band of Puritans to establish a colony in Massachusetts. As the travelers neared their destination, Winthrop delivered a...
Colonies, Revolution & the Founding
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At a NATO summit in France in 2009, President Barack Obama stated, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect...
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Dickson A. Mungazi, author of The Evolution of...
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The non-interventionist movement, like many American traditions, has its roots in the Enlightenment. The Founders were strongly concerned about the potential threat that war and foreign alliances posed to the liberty...
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Early Enlightenment figures such as John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, David Hume, and Francis Bacon, in dialogue or debate with the religious movements of the day, set the stage for the intellectual developments of the...
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The century from the mid-1600s to the mid-1700s set the intellectual stage for the American Revolution. The early 1600s had seen the English Civil War, which had resulted in the execution of the King and the temporary...
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The Boston Tea Party remains one of the few events leading up to the American Revolutionary War which so truly defines, for the average American citizen, the nature of the colonies' severance from England. Aside from...