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Colonies, Revolution & the Founding

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 late 1700s. However, two...

The century from the mid-1600 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 existence of an English...

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 the war itself, the Tea Party...