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The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money

Economists and historians have been telling us the wrong story about Continental currency for two centuries.
by Gabriel Neville via Journal of the American Revolution on January 29, 2024
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The '1776' Project

The Broadway revival of the musical means less to reanimate the nation’s founding than to talk back to it.
by Jane Kamensky via The Atlantic on October 13, 2022
"Head of a Negro" (1777 or 1778), by John Singleton Copley.

The Declaration of Independence’s Debt to Black America

When African Americans allied themselves with the British, the Patriots were enraged, and they acted.
by Woody Holton via Washington Post on July 2, 2021

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation

The nation's first "colorblind" tax set the stage for over two centuries of systematic consolidation of white racial interests.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on April 20, 2017
Colonists in front of the Old State House in Boston.

‘King Hancock’ Review: The Biggest Name in Boston

More than an artful calligrapher, John Hancock forswore the austerity of his fellow Bostonians, and their extremism.
by William Anthony Hay via The Wall Street Journal on October 6, 2023
Newspaper with "Join or Die" slogan

Join, Or Die: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

Revolutionary Americans adopted native snakes as symbols for their cause. Why?
by J. L. Bell via Age of Revolutions on July 5, 2021

Rediscovering a Founding Mother

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, Julia Rush.
by Stephen Fried via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018
Cartoon drawing of George Washington reading the Declaration of Independence to his militia army.

What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence

July 4th celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but we don’t even have the original!
by Maki Naro via The Nib on July 4, 2018

At Its Core, the Declaration of Independence Was a Plea for Help From Britain’s Enemies

The intended audience for the document could be found in the royal houses of France and Spain.
by Larrie D. Ferreiro via Smithsonian on June 28, 2017

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