American Revolution

The Evergreen Tree: When a Pine Became a Warning Label for Tyrants

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Long before Americans argued about flags on social media, our ancestors managed to make a tree politically dangerous. Britain reserved many of New England’s great white pines for the Royal Navy—even trees growing on colonial lands—marking them with the King’s Broad Arrow. The pine became a symbol of something much bigger: ownership, natural rights, independence, and the stubborn belief that free citizens had both the right and responsibility to defend their country. That’s why an evergreen ended up beneath the words “AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN.”

A Quick Look at History Why it Matters for America by George Mcclellan

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Whether anyone realizes it or not, and most probably don’t because our schools indoctrinate our children, not educate them, America’s current political turmoil almost precisely mirrors events that led up to the French Revolution in 1789. Unlike America’s successful Revolutionary War a few years earlier that separated Britain’s original thirteen American Colonies from the mother country, the French Revolution was the complete opposite, a revenge-filled orgy of mayhem, chaos, and mass murder that spilled the blood of thousands of people, nobles, merchants, and anyone else who didn’t agree with the usurpers’ politically correct path to totalitarianism.

At 250, the Republic Is Missing: How America Quietly Rebuilt the Tyranny It Rebelled Against

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At 250 years old, the United States has not collapsed. There are no tanks in the streets or dictators on balconies. Instead, America has done what nearly every revolution before it has done: it defeated an obvious form of tyranny and then slowly reconstructed a more efficient, more sophisticated version of it.