The Decline of the Plymouth Colony
What, in all this time, was happening to Plymouth, the mother colony of all New England? Succinctly, it was rapidly and irretrievably declining.
What, in all this time, was happening to Plymouth, the mother colony of all New England? Succinctly, it was rapidly and irretrievably declining.
Attempts of the government to subsidize the beginning of fisheries also proved fruitless.
And still the indomitable Quakers kept coming. Among the most determined to bear witness was William Leddra, destined to be the last American martyr.
With the persecution of the Quakers mounting to a critical pitch, the stage was now set for the tragic climax: murder.
Gore Vidal's "American Chronicle" series proved that there was, in fact, a substantial market for skepticism about the glorious American past.
Massachusetts was soon to reach the turning point in its previously unchecked highroad of persecution.
The book American Empire is a debate between two "realist" authors on the practical virtues of empire.
Jefferson County's experience with the occupational tax illustrates Henry Hazlitt's differentiation between good and bad economists.