Daily Friend, South Africa April 16, 2023 In this American Dispatch column I argue that the glorious American Revolution was really a civil war led by elites that wouldn’t have succeeded without French assistance. Read the article. Continue reading Revisionist Thoughts on the American Revolution
I. Thomas Jefferson was smitten with the rugged beauty of the Natural Bridge deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia. He visited this geographic wonder 120 miles from Monticello at least six times, describing its sturdy limestone arch 250 feet above Cedar Creek, as “the most sublime of nature’s works.” Natural Bridge, May 2022 (Barry D. Wood photo) Jefferson was enthralled both by the … Continue reading Thomas Jefferson, Natural Bridge, & My Great-Grandfather
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