Message from @Thomas
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I remember looking at some primary documents about harvard students in the 1700s
a dorm burned down and the school was filing claims to restore property to the students
so you could see what every student claimed as his property, including the books that they had
lots of bible
lots of random textbooks
some john locke
everything else in very small quantities
honestly, it's kind of like today
in a sense
though replace the bible with some random social media bullshit or maybe the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy lol
people like james madison, benjamin franklin, alexander hamilton, and james madison were one out of a thousand
You have any book recommendations on European history?
Or should I just get a textbook for something like that?
I have a good recommendation of a "textbook"
Patrick O'Brien's World History Atlas
Alright fellas, what should we set this week's topic for?
Whatever you want
Should we follow a podcast or book?
Alright, because we are Amfirst, we'll do the American Revolutionary War as our very first topic.
The war was between American Rebels, and the British Empire lasting from Apr 19, 1775 – Sep 3, 1783, get to chatting fellas!
Horatio Gates - big gay, or giga faggot?
@Deleted User Don't know enough about the fellow.
Seems like a queer from what little I'm reading of him.
If you looked at the political climate of the time period with the age of enlightenment it wasn't too amazing
But the if it weren't for the Seven Years War it would not have happened
But I mean militarily, do you think it was any amount of difficult or unlikely?
I hold the personal belief that we were very, very fortunate.
Militarily I'd say it was pretty miraculous
yeah which battle was the turning point? Trenton?
I'm not too well versed in specific battle of the revolution. I know quite a few from the civil war,
but I need to brush up on my revolutionary history.
Thankfully we have the History-Server™
I'll read up
But im clocking out fellas
The official slogan of the History-Server™
I'm not sure of the revolution was inevitable--I think that if the British were more open about sharing representation with the United States and allowing more free trade, then the colonies would have eventually fallen in line
The UK gov't was a lot more liberal than, let's say the Spanish gov't
Though if the UK didn't budge in the long-term, the American Revolution would have happened again
If not during the 1770s, then during the Napoleonic Wars