Introduction As America enters its semiquincentennial year in 2026, there will be numerous celebrations and remembrances of the nation’s founding. The names George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and others will ring familiar as patriots who drafted key documents such as the Declaration of Independence, rode across the countryside to alert […] The post Black Patriots of the American Revolution: A Guide for Teachers appeared first on Journal of t...| Journal of the American Revolution
(Written in 1775 by Phillis Wheatley, who mailed her poem to General Washington.) Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light,Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write.While freedom’s cause her anxious breast alarms,She flashes dreadful... The post General Washington Poem by Phillis Wheatley appeared first on Excellence in Literature by Janice Campbell.| Excellence in Literature by Janice Campbell