american revolution

The Dollar and the American Revolution I’ll start with two questions. One could be called a trivia question. This one isn’t so trivial. From time to time I meet someone from England, or Great Britain, who tells me that the American Revolution wasn’t necessary. The problems were temporary. The...

Army Puts Muslim in Charge of Division's Spiritual Needs | Military.com I think we are over the hill, USA. We've lost the handle. We don't know where we are going and we have forgotten where we have been.

Some background: The American Revolution occurred because Britain had had a policy of 'salutary neglect' or tacit allowance of smuggling in its North American colonies. After the Seven Years War, Britain paid four times the amount it received in revenue to defend these colonies and decided to...