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Bob Simmons's avatar

Thanks for all three parts of “Freedom 250,” Brian. I think the third part is one of your best essays.

Brian Halpin's avatar

Thanks Bob. Still working from a laptop with limited access to my research files while the electrician tries to repair damage from a recent lightning storm. Hope to be back to proper office soon, and a more regular writing schedule!

Bob Simmons's avatar

Not too fast! I still have a backlog of reading to clear!

Stephen Carr Hampton's avatar

I love this "freedom from" vs "freedom to" distinction.

@Rebecca Nagle's new podcast, First America, does a deep dive into the US Revolution and its goal to give the colonists FREEDOM TO cross the Proclamation Line of 1763 and take the land of the "merciless Indian savages," a point made clear in the Declaration of Independence. I summarized that last year here:

REVELATIONS ABOUT THE REVOLUTION

https://substack.com/@schampton/p-167383383