This Wasn’t a Request. It Was a Refusal.
The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to respond to the hated Coercive Acts – Parliament’s brutal punishment for the Boston Tea Party. They had a decision: submit to tyranny, or resist. Their answer was the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental...
The Revolution Didn’t Begin with a Shot. It Began with a Line in the Sand.
Life, liberty, and property weren’t just theories – they were the foundation of the American Revolution. John Locke wrote them, the Declaration adopted them, but Samuel Adams turned them into action. In 1772, he drafted an incredibly important, but almost...
Loud and Proud: Eternal Defiance to Tyranny
“I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” -John Hancock To declare “eternal enmity” against the British was not just tough talk – it was treason punishable by death. Yet, like so many of the Old Revolutionaries, Hancock embraced it because he...