Before the American Revolution, African Americans such as Crispus Attucks from Boston protested the British curbing of civil liberties. ... Many consider Attucks the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War. ..…

But later that year, Kipling was incensed by a diplomatic struggle over the border between British Guiana and the American-backed Venezuela, which his new friends threatened to blow into war. ... What If makes clear, however, is that Kipling’s offensive politics must be understood as a..…

Hampden-Sydney, men's arts college, was American college founded British Colonial America and the college founded before American Declaration of Independence was signed. ..…