North Santiam Canyon Oral History Project

09/14/2021

“I desire you would remember the ladies”—March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams After reading the “Most Overrated Revolutionary” and the “Most...

08/28/2021

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/08/did-the-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-engage-in-a-treasonous-act/

Speaking on Independence Day, 1821, John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the Unites States and the son of John Adams, a signer of the...

04/05/2021

Horses have been used for transportation for thousands of years, but have caused countless injuries and deaths. There is a saying that the only...

03/31/2021

In the male-dominated historical record of East Florida during the era of the American Revolution, a few women stand out as noteworthy. Most women...

02/19/2021

It is easy to suggest that William Blount made no significant contribution to the development of the United States. His achievements, although not negligible,...

02/19/2021

John Corlis (sometimes spelled Corlies) was a Quaker land owner who resided in Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He along with his mother...

01/27/2021

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/01/partly-national-partly-federal-james-madison-the-amphictyonic-confederacy-and-the-republican-balance/?fbclid=IwAR1biaVIjOLdSSm5g7feGi_2wSEM8xW-n3Jrzw7zFleKz4XP0X15piD9wY0

Following the Constitutional Convention’s completion of the United States Constitution in the Fall of 1787, many of those involved in its creation embarked on...

01/26/2021

I was able to visit here in the late 1980s, walking along the path outlined in the story.

Here’s one of the things I love most about Boston: If it were possible to drop Paul Revere in downtown today, he could, quite...

01/22/2021

“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”[1] It had been less than three months since Congress had adopted a...

01/12/2021

In the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the...

12/22/2020

William “Will” Costin was found dead in his own bed on the morning of May 31, 1842. Washington City’s leading newspaper, the Daily National...

12/15/2020

The image of a nation united in the aftermath of the American Revolution, content with hard-fought for and hard-won independence, is largely a grade...