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new video loaded: School Year Cut Short and Aid Delivery Slowed Amid Fuel Crisis in Cuba A U.S. oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration has set off an increasingly agonizing energy crisis that has brought transportation largely to a standstill. In an effort to save energy resources, the government ended the school year early. … Read more

Husband himself was far from downtrodden. The firstborn son of a wealthy Maryland family, he had accumulated some 10,000 acres of land in the North Carolina backcountry by the time of the Battle of Alamance. But his sense of justice tilted him toward the underdog. He once sided against his own Quaker congregation in a … Read more

Unlike state militiamen called up for a few weeks of emergency service, George Washington’s Continentals were regular soldiers who had to stick it out through years of fierce battles, nasty skirmishes, long marches, debilitating hunger, chronic disease and frigid exposure. They fought against superior numbers of better-supplied and -trained foes: a mix of British redcoats, … Read more

Mercy Otis Warren was among the first writers of the Revolutionary period to define the struggle against Britain as a fight against tyranny. Before Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense” or Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, Warren helped lay the groundwork by framing the conflict in stirring, dramatic terms. In a series of plays … Read more