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14 08, 2017

Anne Hutchinson – A Puritan leader

By |2019-01-27T19:13:57-08:00August 14th, 2017|North America, Religion|Comments Off on Anne Hutchinson – A Puritan leader

Boston in the time of Anne Hutchinson Anne Hutchinson's backstory Anne Hutchinson was born in 1603, the same year that Queen Elizabeth died. Her father was a Puritan minister in England. Like Margaret Cavendish about [...]

14 08, 2017

Thomas Paine – American Philosophy

By |2017-08-14T13:00:34-07:00August 14th, 2017|North America, Philosophy|Comments Off on Thomas Paine – American Philosophy

Thomas Paine (by Matthew Pratt, about 1790) In the late 1700s AD, around the same time that Voltaire, du Chatelet, and Rousseau were writing philosophy in France, and Hume was writing in England, Thomas Paine was [...]

11 08, 2017

Equal rights for some – American government

By |2020-04-15T11:17:04-07:00August 11th, 2017|Government, North America|Comments Off on Equal rights for some – American government

Equal rights for women? Abigail Adams During and after the American Revolution, the rich white men were writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Declaration of Independence Constitution Bill of [...]

11 08, 2017

History of American games – lacrosse to soccer

By |2018-04-20T08:23:51-07:00August 11th, 2017|Games, North America|Comments Off on History of American games – lacrosse to soccer

History of American games: Ute horse race (thanks to Southern Ute Museum and Cultural Center) Horses and horse-racing The first important change in the history of American games after 1500 AD came with the horse. [...]

10 08, 2017

Green corn ceremony – Native American religion

By |2019-07-25T09:34:39-07:00August 10th, 2017|Food, Native American, Religion|Comments Off on Green corn ceremony – Native American religion

Green corn ceremony: Corn, beans, and squash growing together When people started farming... Like other people around the world, when people in North America started to get more of their food [...]

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