Four states, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Georgia, move to ratify the Constitution before 1787 comes to an end.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier

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Despite an amazing level of confusion, miscommunication and a dispute over who was in command, the American manage to capture Fort Ticonderoga with only 83 men in the early morning hours of May 10, 1775.

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Washington ends the Convention with an epic drinking party before heading home. The proposed Constitution is taken to New York where the Confederation Congress has to decide what to do with it.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: ⁠The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael Klarman

Online Recommendation of the Week: Franklin closing speech to the convention: https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/assessments_64.pdf

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Benjamin Franklin returns from Britain in time to join the opening of the Second Continental Delegates. With war having already started in New England, delegates must decide whether to join the fight.

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Our April 2025 American Revolution Round Table hosted John Maass, author of From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War.

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Following the British Retreat from Lexington and Concord on April 18, 1775, the Provincial Army of New England forms literally overnight to besiege the British Army at Boston. The standoff would last nearly a year.

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The delegates at the federal convention in Philadelphia wrap up their work in September 1787, sending their proposed Constitution to the people of the United States.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution, by Richard Morris

Online Recommendation of the Week: NOVA: Weapons of the Revolutionary War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCckXg0gZM

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This week, we remember the 250th Anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775.

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Over the summer of 1787, the Federal Convention in Philadelphia debates the idea of an executive branch for the new government.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, by Richard Beeman

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On April 14, 1775, General Gage of Massachusetts receives a letter from Lord Dartmouth calling on him to take action against the rebels.

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