The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

are: William Leete Stone’s Matthias and His Impostures, Margaret Matthew’s Matthias. By His Wife, and Gilbert Vale’s Fanaticism. Stone’s account was published a little while after Matthias was convicted and it’s written from the point of view of Benjamin and Ann Folger. The pamphlet written by Margaret Matthews tells of her own experiences with her husband. Finally, Gilbert Vale’s two volumes were written from the point of view of Isabella Van Wagenen. The authors of The Kingdom of Matthias had…

The world is a vast place, filled with numerous individuals, all characterized by unique qualities. John Stuart Mill, a 19th century writer, philosopher, and businessman who placed great importance on those who find and offer new ideas, theorized that the two primary qualities in life were originality and genius. An original person is one who is independent of all others and is unique in all that they do, and someone who displays genius is unusually intelligent and creative. In “Genius and…

Luke Losoya October 19, 2017 HIST 1301-079 Professor Jonathan A Lee Causes of the Revolution from Two Contradictive Historians The American Revolution was a unique phenomenon. Many people from complete opposite ends of colonial societies united to gain independence from the sovereign Great Britain, who during the time was the military and economic powerhouse of the world. Historians often find themselves disagreeing over the causes that joined colonial forces together. Gary Nash and Bernard…

Thomas Paine was an emigrant from England who wrote a persuasive pamphlet in 1776, known as Common Sense. this was a political argument for American Independence, written to the colonists in hopes to get them on board with separation from Great Britain. Samuel Seabury was “a native of Connecticut” who wrote a series of pamphlets arguing against Independence, in 1775, to the colonists, to prove why they needed to stay joined with Great Britain. While some may think the two authors, Thomas Paine…

On July 4, 1776, colonists risked their lives and the lives of their future generations to fight the most powerful nation at the time, Great Britain. The period around 1960’s America was known as the Civil Rights Movement where African Americans risked their lives and self-respect facing ideologies that had no moral or ethical grounds. What these two events have in common is that people gathered together to fight for the right to participate in their system of governance: to participate in a…

John wilkes booth was born on May 10, 1839 somewhere in Maryland. Booth was the second youngest of 10 siblings. John's father's name was Junius brutus booth. Junius was a well known actor, but he had a bad habit for heavy. John was also raised on a farm with all of his sibilin. John's farm did have slaves, and the slaves run the cotton fields. The reason why John Wilkes Booth made an impact on our history. Is by killing Abraham Lincoln in april 14, 1865 right after 10:00. Booth had killed…

The American Revolution was a memerable period of time due to many people changing and alot of events happening. Around 1607 Jamestown Settlers arrived in April, creating the first permanent british settlement. After that North America had a overflow of british colonists it reached an estimated 28,000 in 1640. Acouple years after it multiplied more than 6 times the estimation was at 213,500 people. The first American Newspaper was published in Boston. Mostly elaborating Polotics, Events…

In the book 1776, David McCullough desribes the most important year in the revolutionary war, with a focus on George Washington himself. He “was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair” ( McCullough). The author shows Washingtons heroic battles, his early life, education, marriage to Martha Custis, his life as a weathly Virgina planter and his love of architecture. This book is about the history of the United States…

Emerson’s Closing Paragraph in his Speech The American Scholar During the 1800s in the years following the American Revolution, the United States and its people were still strongly connected to Britain. This European country was a strong leading power, so America had yet to establish their individuality, and rather, continued to conform to Europeans’ past ways. In his speech The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson connects this time period to men and scholars alike; he urges them to break…

In Redcoats and Rebels, the author Christopher Hibbert reference’s in a very vivid historical context of the American revolution. Mr. Hibbert compiles large amount of historical data about two major opposing sides in the American revolution. He portrayed the British as the courageous ‘red coats’ and portrayed the American’s as the ‘rebels’. His work is complied in twenty-five short paragraphs, divided into three parts each in chronological order. Christopher Hibbert, wrote this narrative of…