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REVOLUTIONARY WAR ROOTS OF THE NAMING OF GREENVILE NC

The very name of Greenville is a direct product of the Revolutionary War. The town was originally incorporated in 1771 as Martinsborough, named in honor of North Carolina’s last British Royal Governor, Josiah Martin. As Governor Martin fled the colony and the war heated up, the town’s name became an ideological problem.

In 1786, the North Carolina General Assembly officially changed the name to Greenville to honor General Nathanael Greene, the legendary Revolutionary War hero who commanded the Southern campaign and successfully pushed the British out of the Carolinas.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Delaware Declares Independence. On June 15, 1776, the Assembly of the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania declares itself independent of British and Pennsylvanian authority, thereby creating the state of Delaware.

Delaware did not exist as a colony under British rule. As of 1704, Pennsylvania had two colonial assemblies: one for the “Upper Counties,” originally Bucks, Chester and Philadelphia, and one for the “Lower Counties on the Delaware” of New Castle, Kent and Sussex. All of the counties shared one governor.

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, June 12, 1987: President Reagan challenges Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall” In one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany.

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR TRIVIA: DID YOU KNOW? There were two Boston tea parties: Between 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in modern money.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY, JUNE 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was pronounced dead a day later, on June 6, 1968.

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Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot | June 5, 1968 | HISTORY Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles afte...

CONGRATULATIONS DR. PUDLOW!

Dr. Jason Pudlow of the Dept. of Political Science was selected as a Fulbright Scholar for a research exchange in Canada as part of the 2026-2027 cohort. He will spend January 2027 through May 2027 at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, studying disaster relief and recovery by faith-based organizations in rural communities. The research will create a taxonomy of recovery and resilience strategies used by local faith communities and will contribute to a growing body of comparative public administration disaster studies by comparing practices between the United States and Canada.

FROM THE DESK OF THE POLI-SCI EXPLAINER

Monday's Constitution Quiz: Which article of the US Constitution outlines provisions, powers and limits of Congress (make your guess before you look below)?

A. Article 1
B. Article 2
C. Article 3
D. None of the above

(Did you have to look it up?) The correct response is "A," inasmuch as Congress was considered to be the first branch of government.

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