Treason: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, and the Constitution
Aaron Burrโs disaffection with the federal government began during the election of 1800 when he was denied the presidency by the House of Representatives. After equaling Thomas Jefferson in the delegate count in the electoral college (each man received 73 electoral...
Samuel Adams: “Truly the Man of the Revolution”
โHis mind was replete with resources that dissipated fear, and extricated in the greatest emergencies. Thus qualified, he stood forth early, and continued firm, through the great struggle, and may justly claim a large share of honor, due to that spirit of energy which...
Free Sovereign and Independent States: George III and the Treaty of Paris
“His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and...