by Ron Sinclair | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncle Sam Says
The Liberty Tree February 10, 2020 Hello America! It’s time for Uncle Sam Says. What is a liberty tree? What is a liberty pole? OK, I know, most Americans today have never even heard of either one. But just before and during the revolutionary war the colonists...
by Ron Sinclair | Feb 5, 2020 | Uncle Sam Says
Like The Pony Express February 5, 2020 Hello America! It’s time for Uncle Sam Says. In the 1700’s our colonists desperately needed a fast and reliable way to get the truth to the people. Their answer was the Correspondence Committees who acted very much like...
by Ron Sinclair | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncle Sam Says
On Jan 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published his booklet, Common Sense. Largely because of the Correspondence Committees, by the time of our Declaration of Independence in July of that year, it had become the best selling published work in the colonies selling on both...
by Ron Sinclair | Jan 28, 2020 | Uncle Sam Says
Hello America! The American colonists in the 1700s had a huge problem. They were scattered along a thousand miles of barren, even hostile coastline. There weren’t any roads and very few trails so the only sure way of getting information about each other was from the...
