Historical Reflections

A Colonial Enigma: Natives and Newcomers

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.”The Book of Genesis 17:4 On New Year’s Day of 1812, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson resumed a correspondence, and a friendship, interrupted by eight years of personal...

None of These Diseases… A lesson from history.

“The Europeans were able to conquer America not because of their military genius, or their religious motivation, or their ambition, or their greed. They conquered it by waging unpremeditated biological warfare.”---Howard Simpson, Invisible Armies: The Impact of...

Comfort Ye My People

In the picturesque city of Newport, Rhode Island stands an historic edifice, the Touro Synagogue, which testifies eloquently to the early settlement of Jews in America. It is an unpretentious building, set back from the street, yet it is so typically colonial that it...

Of Deism, Liberty and the American Way

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must...

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