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AMERICAN LEVIATHAN
THE THREAD OF LIBERTY

October 2026

A Glorious Liberty Document
Frederick Douglass was told the Constitution was a proslavery covenant. He read it himself and concluded the abolitionists had handed away their best…
The Revolution of 1800
The Founders built a republic that could change hands without a shot fired. It only works if you show up.
The Slave Trader’s Son
John Laurens tried to raise a regiment of freed slaves to fight for American independence. South Carolina refused. He was killed at twenty-seven in a…
The Girl in the Room
Grace Wisher was thirteen, African American, and indentured. She helped sew the flag that inspired the national anthem.
The American Revolution was a gamble on self-government
The founders knew how often republics had failed.
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The Thread of Liberty Is Now on Amazon
Rent or purchase my documentary on the ideas that shaped our republic.
The Private
Joseph Plumb Martin enlisted at fifteen, served nearly the whole war, wrote the best account of it we have, and died poor
A Wounded Man
Prince Estabrook stood on Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, and was shot fighting for a country that owned him
A Columbian Patriot
Mercy Otis Warren wrote plays that helped start the Revolution, an argument that helped produce the Bill of Rights, and one of the first histories of…
The Argument That Made a Revolution
James Otis stood up in a Boston courtroom in 1761 and lost. John Adams said American independence was born in that room.
Victory or Death
December 25–26, 1776: the password was not a slogan. It was an accurate description of the alternatives.
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