Posts Tagged ‘American revolution’
The Free and Independent Republic of West Florida
And speaking of short-lived, mostly forgotten nations, as I believe we were, allow me to go back into my notes from our road trip in 2015, and dig up a story that never got the blog post it deserved. * The Free and Independent Republic of West Florida made the Free State of Fiume look…
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Running from Bondage: A Q & A with Dr. Karen Cook Bell
Between the combination of the approval of Juneteenth as a federal holiday and the July 4th holiday , the American Revolution has been on my mind for the last few weeks. And thanks to a recently published book, those thoughts have taken some new turns. It is not often that a book crosses my desk…
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The American Revolution from Another Perspective
It’s the Fourth of July weekend here in the United States: a holiday that expands and contracts depending on where in the week it falls. It’s a good time to think about the complexity of revolutions in general, and the American Revolution in particular. In Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution,…
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