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AN ANGRY NATION

driverpost wrote 3 weeks ago: December 1, 2009 A recent Rasmussen poll reports that 71% of American voters are angry with the curr … more →

Tags: United States Government, US, united states, america, American, election, Congress, States, Founding Fathers

Sultry Pilgrim Holds Turkey---Women In Colonial New England

Neil Aquino wrote 1 month ago: Above you see a sultry Pilgrim holding a Thanksgiving Turkey. She’s going to have that turkey … more →

Tags: Alan Taylor, Books, Colonial America, History, Puritans, Thanksgiving, thanksgiving turkey, Women

Airhorns, incest, and prayers for rain3 comments

Mark Gisleson wrote 3 months ago: The WaPost dishes more dirt from the Latimer insider tell all, but wraps by pointing out who didn … more →

Tags: corporatism, linkcetera, Media whores, Republicans, glenn beck, horns, Peak Oil, Transportation, wingnuts

Magra C. (2007) For cod and country, fishermen and the American Revolution

Ben wrote 5 months ago: Magra, Christopher P. (2007) “The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the Am … more →

Tags: america, Early Modern, Economic History, Reading Notes, 1700s, Altlantic world, American Revolution, atlantic, Fish

The Enthralling, Inspiring Life of George Whitefield

Lex Loizides wrote 6 months ago: George Whitefield enthral (verb) = to captivate, hold spellbound, by pleasing qualities. (OED) When … more →

Tags: 18th Century, church growth, church, Forgiveness, mission, Grace, Church Planting, Bible, Oxford

Bone Rattler

merlinsbooks wrote 7 months ago: This is quite a good story, but it was hard work, just about the whole way through.  I only continue … more →

Tags: Fiction, Pattison, Eliot, murder mystery, Eliot Pattison, Scots Highlanders, British/French war, american indians

Petty Family History Facts 1920 - Ancestry.com

weavercat wrote 7 months ago: Petty Name Meaning and History English: variant of Petit. The name is also found in Ireland, the mai … more →

Tags: Surnames, Origins/Meaning, Petty, Paté, Patey, petit, online leads, France, England

What Google Searches Miss8 comments

Neil Aquino wrote 9 months ago: I was looking up something on Google and typed the letter A. I saw that the word Amazon came up. Bec … more →

Tags: Amazon, Art, arthur ashe, Books, Galveston, Google, History, John Singleton Copley, Joy Division

November 10th - 2008 Semper Fidelis Devil Dogs

Joe Holt wrote 1 year ago: Happy Birthday Marines November 10th, 2008 1775 Tun Tavern – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Birth … more →

Tags: military, 1775, Battalion, Benjamin Franklin, "Cold Beer", Continental Congress, Crown Royal, Franklin, Grand Lodge

I don't think we're in Plymouth anymore, Toto2 comments

Michael Lynch wrote 1 year ago: I’m getting ready to teach an undergraduate course on colonial America this fall.  That means … more →

Tags: Colonial America, Historiography, Alan Taylor

Monks and Beer.

pellonpekko wrote 1 year ago: “He who drinks beer sleeps well. He who sleeps well cannot sin. He who does not sin goes to he … more →

Tags: History, Beer, small beer, monastaries

The Invasion of America4 comments

Aramink wrote 1 year ago: America – both the Americas – were not so much settled by Europeans as they were invaded … more →

Tags: Environment, History, Indian, Native Americans, Pilgrims, ghost dancers, handsome lake, Seven Years War, French and Indian Wars

Procrastination and Common Sense

Aramink wrote 1 year ago: I am as the American Colonies were in 1775. I know you all want to know how I could possibly be like … more →

Tags: Humor, History, Personal, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Procrastination, American Revolution, stamp act, Benjamin Franklin


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