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It is customary for Americans to think of this continent mainly in terms of the Atlantic settlements and the wilderness to the west, but another process of settlement is also taking place on the distant coast of the Pacific. Just the week before last, a weary band of 193 Spanish...
The day before, a preliminary vote on Virginian Richard Henry Lee's resolution for independence showed nine of the colonies in favor, two (South Carolina and Pennsylvania) opposed, New York abstaining and Delaware deadlocked. To decide such momentous business?cutting much of a continent and its 2.5 million inhabitants free...
There, without dissent, the disparate colonies of America at last took the step that severed their 169-year-old political ties with the mother country, proclaiming that they "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." Independence?the process as painful and bloody as birth?represents a...
So it was. But the Americans come to independence with divergent interests and reasons: the fishermen, shipbuilders and merchants of New England, the traders and small farmers of the Middle Colonies, the planters and farmers of the south. The newly united states stretch 1,300 miles from Massachusetts' rocky Maine...
Some material for another Widener-based thesis was gathered first-hand. The hierarchy of the Sufi movement, a mystical Muslim sect based in Mauritania and Senegal, has shifted from white to black domination of the past 40 years as the religion continues to spread to central Africa. David Sharry, a...