We are in the midst of a short series on Eric Metaxas’s new book If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty. In this post we want to examine Metaxas's understanding of the relationship between England and the thirteen American colonies, particularly as it relates to the concept of "liberty." As my students of colonial America are well aware, the so-called "13 Colonies" were very British at the time of the American Revolution.  In fact, much of what the … [Read more...] about Review of Eric Metaxas, "If You Can Keep It": Part 4
Britishness
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Here are my continued thoughts on the secondary reading I am doing for my current project on Presbyterians and the American Revolution. (For additional entries in this series click here).I just reread Patrick Griffin's excellent, The People With No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. I actually reviewed this book about ten years ago for the Journal of Presbyterian History, but this time around I was … [Read more...] about Project Reading