Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father
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A 3 page paper which examines the significance of Benjamin Franklin as a founding father. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Essay Title: Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father

Book Review of Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”
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This is a 6 page book review discussing Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”. Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” (1967, 1992) shows readers the importance and influence of the “pamphleteers” during the time of the American Revolution. Previous to Bailyn’s publication in 1967, most historical accounts of the Revolution included political and economical theories used to explain the change in the population toward Revolution. Bailyn’s text however shows the importance of the political writings at the time which appeared in newspapers, pamphlets, booklets, letters and published speeches in addition to the original influences of writers and philosophers in an attempt to rid the colonies of the corruption which originated through their affiliation with the Crown. While Patriots were originally a minority in the population and considered as “radicals”, in a short space of only fifteen years, their writings managed to “enlighten a population”. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Essay Title: Book Review of Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”

Book Review of “Facing East from Indian Country” by Daniel K. Richter
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An 8 page paper which critically reviews this historical text by focusing upon the author’s central question, which is ‘How would Indians have written their own history of colonial America?’ An examination as to why the author considers this question so important and worthy of investigation is then presented and also considered is how he makes his point, and how well he makes his case through supporting evidence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Essay Title: Book Review of “Facing East from Indian Country” by Daniel K. Richter

Boorstin: The Americans
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This 3 page paper examines chapters 43-46 of Boorstin's book on the formation of the United States and its government. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Essay Title: Boorstin: The Americans

Breen and Innes: "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore (1980)
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(5 pp) In the seventeenth century, blacks who were either slaves or indentured servants had, at least in one part of the South, a unique window of opportunity open to freedom. Their story is seldom known, and worth a closer look because of the lessons it teaches about the power of free markets and personal freedom. In "Myne Owne Ground," professors, T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes describe settlements on the Eastern Shore of Virginia between the years 1640 and 1680, and reflect the impacts these free blacks had on the surrounding community. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Essay Title: Breen and Innes: "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore (1980)

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians
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In seventeen pages this paper examines the respectful and harmonious relationship William Penn cultivated with the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians who were residing in Pennsylvania during the seventeenth century and how the promises he made to them in good faith regarding their land were subsequently broken after his death by his greedy sons Thomas and John. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Essay Title: Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

Calvinism and Puritanism: Connections Through History
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An 8 page discussion of the history of the Puritans. The author contends that this history is considerably more extensive than that that unfolded in the “New World”. Indeed, the Puritans are integrally connected to Scotland and a man known as John Calvin. Puritans were followers of Calvin’s radical new approach to religion. The reverberations of that approach would reach far beyond Scotland and into the Americas as well as the rest of the world. Not only would it shape the actions of the Puritans themselves, it would determine the way they would interact with others throughout history. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Essay Title: Calvinism and Puritanism: Connections Through History