117 results for 'founding fathers'
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Abigail Adams and the Letter that Sparked a Revolution(Post)
In November 1775, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, that the Thirteen Colonies must split with Britain for good. King George’s refusal to recognise American liberties meant that independenc ...
Frederick Douglass and the Promise of America(Post)Frederick Douglass said that Independence Day in 1852 wasn't for him. Many still feel left out - dare we hope, as he did, that "'Let there be light' has not yet spent its force"? Image: U.S. Arm ...
Time For Us To Rise: Shays' Rebellion(Post)Thomas Jefferson saw the good side of allowing some expression of discord in the new nation of America - he was referring to Shays' Rebellion of 1786 Typically, our radical tea towel designs ...
Created Equal: Values From The American Revolution(Post)"All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." - Thomas Jefferson, July 4th, 1776 Despite my childhood growing up among those bad-guy redcoa ...
Finding Hope in Radical History on July 4th(Post)For generations of American changemakers, our country's idealistic origins have held the key to its renewal. We put together a quiz to remind people about America's radical roots. Deep within th ...
The Radical History of Moms(Post)With Mother’s Day fast approaching, remember the radical part played by moms in the story of the United States. Fatherhood has been written into the American story with an energy like ...
A Day in the Life of a Radical Business(Post)There's something about being part of a 'family and friends' business that's both refreshing and frustrating at the same time. Because you know the people involved so well, you're more confid ...
Bringing Marx to America: The Life of Friedrich Sorge(Post)Born on 9th November in 1828, Friedrich Sorge went on to play a key role in American radical history Some of you might have heard of the San Francisco 49ers, named after the California Gold R ...
Tea Towels Saved My Relationship — With America(Post)In the darkest of times, a radical company from the UK helped me keep my faith in America. We Americans aren’t so different from our British cousins after all. Sure, we once fought a war of ...
Thomas Skidmore: The conflicting fight of freedom for all(Post)Today in 1790, educator, politician, and radical philosopher, Thomas Skidmore, was born in Connecticut, USA.When someone calls for freedom, it's always healthy to ask: freedom for whom? To do what?As ...
I Hear America singing: The Radicalism of Walt Whitman(Post)Walt Whitman, born 31st May in 1819, rendered the ordinary magnificent. A poet and a humanist, his vision of culture was free from snobbery and open to all. Image source: Library of Congress ...
The 19th Amendment: How Women in America Fought for the Vote(Post)Today marks the centenary of the 19th Amendment, the culmination of a struggle which had contested the limits of what it means to be human in the United States.Source: Schlesinger Library on the Hist ...
Jane Addams and Hull House: A True Chicago Story(Post)History gives us many examples of cities which have shown a special talent for producing radical politics. 'Rote Wien' (Red Vienna) was known as a socialist stronghold between the wars until ...
Brother Against Brother: Abraham Lincoln and the US Civil War(Post)The story of Abraham Lincoln's election and the fight to end slavery in the United States... On Tuesday 6 November 1860, Americans voted for a new president. It was a tight election, bu ...
John Muir: The Gospel of the Mountains(Post)The story of John Muir, the Father of the National Parks... America was a country built on immigration, so it seems only right that one of the most influential Americans ever was in fact a ma ...
Our Story(Page)How did a parents-and-son team from Wales (in the UK) start selling English tea towels in the United States? What is a 'tea towel' anyway? And can they really inspire a change in the way ...