Mercy Otis Warren

Why Mercy Otis Warren Belongs in the Pantheon of America’s Founders

by Tenth Amendment | Aug 3, 2020 | Mercy Otis Warren

by Gary M. Galles, FEE March is National Women’s History Month. But despite the heightened attention it brings to women’s influence in American history, one continues to get far too little attention – Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). After all, she has been called...

Mercy Otis Warren: Conscience of Great Causes

by Tenth Amendment | Jan 16, 2018 | Mercy Otis Warren

by Lawrence W. Reed Two centuries before “women’s lib,” in the run-up to America’s Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren was already a liberated woman by the standards of her day. And she did the liberating herself. In the latter half of the 18th century, Warren was an...

Everyday People and the American Revolution

by John Whitehead | Mar 29, 2015 | American Revolution, John Dickinson, Mercy Otis Warren

We elevate the events of the American Revolution to near-mythical status all too often and forget that the real revolutionaries were people just like you and me. Caught up in the drama of Red Coats marching, muskets exploding and flags waving in the night, we lose...

Liberty Takes Work: The Easy Path Leads to Tyranny

by Tenth Amendment | Sep 1, 2014 | American Revolution, Founding Fathers, History, Mercy Otis Warren

In her pioneering book, History of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) asks why people are so willing to obey the government and answers that it is supineness, fear of resisting, and the long habit of obedience. Like many authors Warren asks a key...

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