Do you ever think about what starts a war? Some of the wars in history officially started for ridiculous reasons (War of Jenkins Ear comes to mind). Then there are wars like the American Revolution. There's not a single cause, and in many ways, they tried for so long not to … [Read more...]
Who else was in the American Revolution?
Nathaniel Greene lesson A few years ago when listening to the History of Rome podcast he mentioned all of early Roman history has been simplified down to, "Who started this military or cultural idea? Romulus. Who started this religious idea? Other Roman whose name I'm not … [Read more...]
Hanukkah at Valley Forge
The Winter at Valley Forge is credited with being the hardest winter of the entire American Revolution. General Washington was striving to keep together an army with no money, no food, and precious little to keep his soldiers from dying of hypothermia. Yet he persevered. … [Read more...]
American Revolution unit study
At a formative point in my childhood, almost 12 years old, I went to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time. We had part of a day to go there, and I remember distinctly reveling in the milieu of Virginia right before the American Revolution. It fascinated me, and so I wasn't … [Read more...]
What happens when the kids write the Declaration of Independence from Mom?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” Thomas Jefferson wrote those words a couple hundred years ago and with the flick of a pen set in motion events that changed the … [Read more...]
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