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• AMERICAN ICONS
  • Masonic Symbolism on the Dollar Bill?
  • Statue of Liberty
  • The First Flag
  • The Flag Resolution of 1777
  • The Great Seal
  • The Statue of Liberty — A Masonic Goddess from Top to Bottom
  • Uncle Sam
  • Washington Crossing the Rhine, I mean, Delaware
• Events
  • 1770, 3/5: The Boston Massacre
    • Boston Massacre as Reported in the Boston Gazette
    • Hardly a Massacre – British View
    • Paul Revere’s Engraving - Explained
    • The Boston Massacre Trial
    • Timeline
    • What Made the Boston Massacre a Massacre
  • 1773, 12/16: Boston Tea Party
  • 1775, 04/18: Paul Revere’s Ride
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Paul Revere’s Ride
    • The Real Story of Paul Revere’s Ride
  • 1775, 04/19: Battles of Lexington and Concord
  • 1775, 06/17: Battle of Bunker Hill
  • 1775, 07/01: George III’s Letter to Lord Sandwich
  • 1775, 10/27: His Majesty’s most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Friday, October 27, 1775
  • 1776, 12/25: Washington Crosses the Delaware, 1776
  • 1776, 12/26: Battle of Trenton
  • 1777, 12/19-1778, 06/19: Valley Forge
• About
• Book Reviews
  • Alfred Kazin: A Biography
  • Angry Man
  • Barack Obama and Soft Power
  • Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro
  • The Jewish key to Henry Kissinger
  • The Last Good Campaign
  • The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
  • The Solitary New York Jew
  • The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel (Hardcover)
  • Tragedy and Hope
• Documents
  • Articles of Confederation, 1777
  • The Constitution of the United States
    • Article. I. – The Legislative Branch
    • Article. II. – The Executive Branch
    • Article. III. – The Judicial Branch
    • Article. IV. – The States
    • Article. V. - Amendment
    • Article. VI. – Debts, Supremacy, Oaths
    • Article. VII. - Ratification
    • Bill of Rights
    • Preamble
    • The Amendments
  • The Constitution of Virginia; June 29, 1776
  • The Declaration of independence
    • A Declaration of the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled
    • Dunlap Broadside Version
    • Jefferson’s “Original Rough Draft
    • The Declaration Committee
• Empire
  • American exceptionalism
  • Manifest Destiny
• Faith
  • RELIGION AND THE FOUNDING OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
    • I. America as a Religious Refuge:
  • The Faith of our Fathers
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • Charles Carrol
    • Dr. Benjamin Rush
    • Francis Hopkinson
    • George Mason
    • George Washington
    • James Madison
    • John Adams
    • John Hancock
    • John Jay
    • John Marshall
    • John Witherspoon
    • Noah Webster
    • Patrick Henry
    • Richard Stockton
    • Roger Sherman
    • Sam Adams
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • Thomas McKean
  • THE TOCQUEVILLE FRAUD
  • Washington’s Prayer at Valley Forge
• Film
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Food
  • Baked Beans: From About.com
  • Boston Baked Beans: From About.com
  • Hot Dogs As America
  • Legal Sea Foods Clam Chowder
  • Locke-Ober’s Lobster Savannah Recipe
  • Manhattan-Style Clam Chowder
  • New England Clambake Recipe
  • Oysters Rockefeller
  • Rick Stein’s Maryland Crab Cake Recipe
  • The Original Locke-Ober’s New England Clam Chowder
  • Union Oyster House Clam Chowder Recipe
• Friends
  • Britain
    • Charles James Fox
    • Charles Lennox, Third Duke of Richmond
    • Coke of Norfolk
    • Edmund Burke
    • Whig Sympathizers
  • France
    • Benjamin Franklin at the French Court
    • Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
    • Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
  • Germany
    • Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
    • General Baron Johann DeKalb
  • Poland
    • Tadeusz Kościuszko
• Money
  • A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency by Benjamin Franklin (1729)
  • Andrew Jackson and the Bankwar
  • Bank of North America
  • Colonial ScripFirst Bank of the United StatesHistory of Central Banking in the United States
  • How Benjamin Franklin Made New England Prosperous
  • Second Bank of the United States
• Party
  • 1800 Presidential Election
• • Declarations of Faith
  • Party Time
  • Democratic-Republican Party
  • Federalist Party (United States)
• Peace
  • “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Gore Vidal on John Adams’s Presidency and his Efforts to Keep America out of War with France
  • John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy (1821)
  • PAUL JOHNSON ON JOHN ADAMS AND THE EUROPEAN WAR
  • Preliminary Articles of Peace, November 30, 1782
  • The Calculated Deceit
  • The Paris Peace Treaty, September 3, 1783
• People
  • Founding Fathers
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • Benjamin Franklin
    • George Mason
    • George Washington
    • Gouverneur Morris
    • James Madison
    • John Adams
    • John Hancock
    • John Marshall
    • Patrick Henry
    • Samuel Adams
    • Thomas Jefferson
  • Money Masters
    • Bernard Baruch
    • J. P. Morgan
    • Jacob Schiff
    • John D. Rockefeller
    • Paul Warburg
  • Neo-Cons
    • Richard Perle
  • Presidents
    • Andrew Jackson
    • George W. Bush
    • George Washington
    • James Madison
    • John Adams
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • William McKinley
• Places
  • Boston
    • Locke-Ober Restaurant
    • Locke-Ober’s
    • Male Bastion, 108, Saved by a Chef Named Lydia
    • Old North Church
    • The Freedom Trail
      • Park Street Church
      • Paul Revere’s House
    • Union Oyster House, Boston
    • USS Constitution
    • USS Constitution: A Tour
      • Gun Deck
        • 24-Pounders (Long Guns)
        • Bilge Pumps
        • Camboose Stove
        • Hawse Pipes
      • Orlop Deck
        • Aft Magazine
        • Aft Magazine Hatch
        • Diagonal Riders
        • Surgeon’s Cockpit
      • The Spar Deck
        • 32 Pounders (Carronades)
        • Bowsprite
        • Capstan and Anchors
        • Catheads
        • Main Hatch
        • The Captain’s Skylight
        • The Helm
        • The Spars
      • The Berth Deck
        • Officer’s Quarters
        • Sick Bay
        • Tiller Room
    • Warren Tavern, Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • Washington
    • Lafayette Square, Washington D.C.
• Tyranny
  • ACLU: USA Patriot ActAlien and Sedition Acts
  • Benjamin Franklin Predicts Despotic Goverment in America
  • Gore Vidal: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
  • Gore Vidal: Shredding the Bill of Rights
  • Madison on Tyranny
  • TAKING LIBERTIES: Civil Liberties and National Security
  • THE DEATH OF THE REPUBLIC
  • The Founding Fathers & the Classics.
  • Thoſe who would give up Essential Liberty for a Little Temporary Safety and Deserve Neither
  • TYR’ANNY, n.
• WAR
  • Addresses and Doctrines
    • Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
    • Jefferson’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
    • Monroe Doctrine
    • President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address To The Nation (full)
    • Washington’s Farewell Address
  • America’s Wars
    • First Barbary War
    • Second Barbary War
    • The Mexican American War
    • War of 1812
  • Chickenhawk Menu
  • Good ol’ Bill, the liberal hero
  • Pretexts for War
    • LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    • Pearl Harbor
      • Do Freedom of Information Act Files Prove FDR Had Foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor?
      • JAPAN MAY STRIKE OVER WEEKEND!
      • Pearl Harbor: An Exchange
      • The Pearl Harbor Deception
    • Remember the Maine
    • USS Maine (ACR-1)
  • WAR IS A RACKET – Chapter 1
  • WAR IS A RACKET – Chapter 2
  • WAR IS A RACKET – Chapter 3
  • WAR IS A RACKET – Chapter 4
  • WAR IS A RACKET – Chapter 5
• Writings
  • Common Sense
  • John Adams: DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
    • Letter 1
    • LETTER II.
    • Letter III
    • LETTER IV
    • LETTER IX
    • LETTER IX
    • LETTER V
    • LETTER VI
    • LETTER VII
    • LETTER VIII
    • LETTER X
    • Preface
  • John Adams: Thoughts on Government
  • John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government
  • John Robisons “Proofs of a Conspiracy”
  • Montesquieu: De L’Esprit des Loix
  • The Federalist Papers
  • The Federalist Papers
    • FEDERALIST. No. 1
  • Thomas Jefferson: A Summary View of the Rights of British America
  • Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia