Club Resources

       News media headlines tend to emphasize conflict, controversy, and crisis. Why? Because negative stories attract more attention. They sell. As the old saying goes, “If it bleeds, it leads.” Even the weather gets a headline if it is about a blizzard, torrential...

        The story of the thirteen North American colonies rebelling against their "mother country," Great Britain, is deeply embedded in the American consciousness. Even many who struggle to recall the details of the nation's founding may be aware that French military...

    On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared thirteen of Britain’s twenty-six North American colonies to be independent. Two days later, they provided the reasons for that separation in the Declaration of Independence. Each colony then drafted new...