Short article: “What Life was Like in 1776” – some fascinating insights
Really quite good article, toatla of 17 paragraphs. The author, Thomas Fleming, is former President of the Society of American Historians. Almost every American knows the traditional story of July Fourth—the soaring idealism of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress's grim pledge to defy the world's most powerful nation with their lives, their fortunes … Read more