by Donald Teel | Oct 16, 2019
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
by Donald Teel | Sep 23, 2019
This article is an edited excerpt from Wikipedia and is presented to give the reader a history of politics in the state of Massachusettes. In the early 19th century, Boston was a center of the socially progressive movements in antebellum New England. The abolitionist,...