The Myth of English Tyranny in the Events Preceding the American Revolution One could attribute the historical perception of King George III to none other than the great American patriot, Thomas Jefferson. In what has been termed "the world's greatest editorial," it was Jefferson w...

The American Revolution was by far the most important war in the history of the United States. The war gave the original 13 colonies their freedom from Great Britain and started a new country, the United States of America. Three leading causes of the American Revolution are new Enlightenment ideas, ...

Thousands of years ago many people believed in Ptolemy's geocentric theory that the Earth was the center of the universe. But, not until around 1500 was that theory disproved by the heliocentric theory formed from a great astronomer named Copernicus. His theory proved that the sun is the ce...