American Revolution
Join or Die: Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Call for Union (1754)
Before the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin had a bold idea to unite the colonies – an idea most people have never heard of. In 1754, just before the Albany Congress, he published his famous โJoin...
The #1 Thing That Destroys Liberty
Government has always been a massive threat to liberty – we can all agree on that. But thereโs something even more dangerous, what the founders and old revolutionaries called the doctrine of โpassive obedience and non-resistance.โ Path to Liberty, Fast Friday...
Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 Radical Declaration
Two years before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned a long and detailed list of grievances regarding British acts going back more than a century. He not only referred to them as a โnullityโ but pointed out that โwe declare them void.โ Jeffersonโs...
Free and Independent States: Forgotten Conclusion of the American Revolution
Signed on Sept 3, 1783 – the Treaty of Paris was intended to end the war for independence. But the war didn’t officially end on that date with the signatures of Franklin, John Adams and John Jay. The treaty, made with 13 free, sovereign, and independent...