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Guy Fawkes Night (or "Pope Day" as it was called in colonial America) is coming up this Thursday. And as was commonly the case, G...

Ok, it's time to get this blog rolling again. It's been dead for far too long. I apologize to our readers for the lapse in posts. ...

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all American Revolution Blog readers! Perhaps you are asking yourself why I would be posting something on St....

In his famous A Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers: with Some Reflections on the resistance M...

I know that I have mentioned The Thomas Jefferson Hour in the past on this blog, but I would like to call your attention to it again. In hi...

Being that we are only days from celebrating Christmas, I have chosen to look at how early colonial Americans understood this celebration, w...

At American Creation , one of the repeating arguments that we tackle almost on a weekly basis centers around the issue of how much "God...

Since the blog is on a holiday kick, I thought that this might be an appropriate way to continue the theme. After all, I don't want to b...

Thomas Paine and the Birth of Natural Religion, Natural Law and Enlightenment Philosophy by Brad Hart In the October, 2008 issue of the Will...

Of the many justifications for going to war, perhaps nothing proved more influential to the American colonies than religion. A countless num...

John Jay: The Quintessential Christian Nation Advocate of the 18th Century by Brad Hart Not all of our founding fathers were "theistic ...

In light of the recent discussion on the religious creed of Benjamin Franklin, and the recent book reviews by guest blogger Robert Cornwall,...

Here is a short clip of historian Richard Brookhiser on the religion of the founders. Brookhiser argues that the founders never intended to ...

Historian Gary Nash of UCLA is not only one of the most respected historians on early American history, but has also received praise for th...

The indigenous tribes of the "New World" have been a source of fascination not only for modern scholars, but for early American co...

The traditional view of early colonial historiography has divided the various wars between England and France -- in both the New and Old Wor...

Once upon a time, in a land far away, lived a brave and wise man named Christopher Columbus. Columbus lived in a world of ignorant fools, wh...