• Real Tennis History
  The game of Tennis is called the sport of kings, check out the history of this game on the Real Tennis web site.
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• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 1790
  Read what Edmund Burke thinks about the French Revolution in this classic letter to Thomas Paine in 1790.
  Edmund Burke wrote this letter to Thomas Paine about his ideas of the French Revolution, which set off a debate over political theory in the later half of the 18th century.
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• Reformers of the Justice System
  The philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment contributed to the reformation of the judicial system by advocating the banning of torture and making punishments to fit the crime. Two influential writers were Cesare Beccaria and John Howard.
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• Religion and the American Revolution (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition)
  Religion played a major role in the American Revolution. Find out how and why in this section of the Library of Congress's Exhibition, Religion and the founding of the American Republic.
  III. Religion and the American Revolution (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition). Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British--an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God.
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• Romanticism: The Alternative to the Enlightenment
  Romanticism was in direct competition with the Enlightenment because emotional self-awareness was the foundation of Romantic philosophy.
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• Royalty Articles
  Learn about the kings and queens of the 18th century. These articles are from history1700s.com.
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• Secret Societies by Edward Beecher and Jonathan Blanchard and David MacDill - Project Gutenberg
  This classic etext examines the character and claims of secret societies.
  Download the free eBook: Secret Societies by Edward Beecher, Jonathan Blanchard, and David MacDill
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• Shays' Rebellion
  Read about this rebellion and how it helped to bring about the writing of the United States Constitution.
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• Shays' Rebellion
  During the Confederation period, the young American nation was in economic and political chaos. The new nation had to rebuild its economy without the benefit of belonging to the British mercantile system. America was desperately short on hard cash. This was due to the sudden renewal of British trade. Hard currency was leaving faster than it was coming into the country.
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• Shays' Rebellion
  Read about this event in American history. This was a rebellion against bad policies and economic conditions against farmers.
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• Shays' Rebellion
  This article by Michael A. Hoffman II discusses Shays' Rebllion in some detail. Hoffman claims that this Rebellion was a second American Revolution.
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• Shays' Rebellion
  Read how a former Revolutionary War Captain led a rebellion by farmers against unsettled economic conditions and against the politicians and the laws which were grossly unfair to farmers and working people in general.
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• Shays' Rebellion and Related History, History Institute Workshop, 2/7/98
  Check out Shays' Rebellion and related resources on this page at the History Institute web site.
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• Shays' Rebellion and the U.S. Constitution
  This article by Katherine Amber Elms discusses the Rebellion and its effect on the creation of the U.S. Constitution.
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• Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
  Check out this review by Robert A. McGuire, of the 2002 book Shays's Rebelllion: The American Revolution's Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards. You shuold be able to check out the book at your local library.
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• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
  Read one of the famous sermons of Johnathan Edwards on the web site devoted to him and his life work. Here is just the first paragraph of this sermon...."In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God's wonderful works towards them, remained (as ver. 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the text. The expression I have chosen for my text, Their foot shall slide in due time, seems to imply the following doings, relating to the punishment and destruction to which these wicked Is...
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• Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library
  The exhibit 'Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library' probes the life experiences of American slaves from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century.
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• Society for 18th-Century Music
  The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century.
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• Software for Historical Research and Writing
  Take a short look at a list of affordable software that can assist you in organizing the information that you have gathered while researching the topic you are writing about.
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• Spaniards, Scoundrels, and Statesmen: General James Wilkinson and the Spanish Conspiracy, 1787-1790
  Learn about the rise of General James Wilkinson. This is the man who was a part of the Burr conspiracy and the he is also the man who sent Zebulon Pike on his expeditions to find the source of the Mississippi River and the Western expedition of 18-6-1807.
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