Thank you also to anyone who read my article "'Under God:' Understanding Its Revolutionary Usage," Journal of the American Revolution.
The phrase was meant to avert misfortune by piously making praise conditional and making confidence humble. It functioned like the Arabic phrase inshallah, "God willing." Only in the 1950s did Americans radically change the meaning of the phrase.
My thanks also to everyone who has taken a look at my ebook, The Founding Fathers versus Tucker Carlson. Where the Fox News opinion show host wants viewers to fear "demographic chance," George Washington wanted America to welcome the poor and oppressed "of all nations and religions."
You can find the book on
Kobo
Apple Books
Amazon Kindle
Barnes & Noble Nook
and other sites selling ebooks.
The phrase was meant to avert misfortune by piously making praise conditional and making confidence humble. It functioned like the Arabic phrase inshallah, "God willing." Only in the 1950s did Americans radically change the meaning of the phrase.
My thanks also to everyone who has taken a look at my ebook, The Founding Fathers versus Tucker Carlson. Where the Fox News opinion show host wants viewers to fear "demographic chance," George Washington wanted America to welcome the poor and oppressed "of all nations and religions."
You can find the book on
Kobo
Apple Books
Amazon Kindle
Barnes & Noble Nook
and other sites selling ebooks.
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I have been searching for many years for information of the death as a prisoner of war in Nova Scotia, one of my Revolutionary War ancestors, Joshua Brown, born 14 May 1722, "died 26 December 1776 in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a prisoner of war." This was in a genealogical book of New England Families, written by Carl Boyer. I wrote to Mr. Boyer some 20 years ago, and he said he had no hard evidence of this, only that someone had provided him with this family history. I would like to honor this ancestor as a soldier of the Rev. War, but there seems to be no other record of his service. Do you have any ideas of where I could look? I don't know how to "blog," but your blog came up in my search, and you seem wonderfully knowledgable about Revolutionary War POW's! Any help is appreciated.
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