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5 days ago · Summary. 1776 portrays the creation of the USA as a clash of personalities as much as politics, highlighting the flaws and rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, specifically John Adams and Ben...
2 days ago · On June 28, 1969, people in a small, working-class gay bar in New York City rose up against police harassment. The Stonewall Rebellion marks the beginning of the modern queer movement and holds important lessons for us today. In 1969 to be gay, lesbian, or trans was illegal everywhere but in the state of Illinois.
2 days ago · The American Revolution was the first of the "Atlantic Revolutions": followed most notably by the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American wars of independence. Aftershocks contributed to rebellions in Ireland , the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , and the Netherlands.
5 days ago · The Right Stuff (1983) To jump well ahead in the American story, The Right Stuff is a non-singing (!) love letter and dramatization to the beginning of the space race in the 1950s and ‘60s ...
3 days ago · What was the American Revolution? How did the American Revolution begin? What were the major causes of the American Revolution? Which countries fought on the side of the colonies during the American Revolution? How was the American Revolution a civil war?
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
3 days ago · Steven M. Ward, In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016); Jeanne F. Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2013); Peniel Joseph, Stokely: A Life (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2014); Komozi Woodard, A Nation Within a ...
5 days ago · Huldah Amanda Chamberlain Brown, daughter of a Revolutionary War soldier, lived to see World War I and held a rare distinction in the Daughters of the American Revolution. The DAR is a...
