#foundingfathers

[lostonland]

Friendly reminder to those who need it:

One of our founding fathers was an immigrant. Alexander Hamilton is the reason our financial system works as well as it does. He served directly under George Washington in the Revolutionary War. He helped write the U.S. Constitution. He founded the New York Post and the Coast Guard. Not only an immigrant, he was also LGBTQ.

[azspot]

Radically democratic ideas, when they’re coming not from a kooky duke imagining democracy emerging at some point in the future, but from ordinary people taking action in the immediate present, can be unsettling—not just to Adams and Gopnik but to me, too. And yet, like it or not, that’s how we got the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth. A mass movement, on the street, overthrew the legitimately elected government of Pennsylvania and put in a new government that not only reversed the mighty province’s position against independence but also undid the “ancient” tie between rights and property for the first time since that tie was established. Anti-Paine revolutionaries like Adams said they were fighting the British to defend the ancient tie against British violations; Paine-friendlier revolutionaries like Jefferson said so too. But when Paine and the Pennsylvania radicals untied the tie, they were bringing the old, long-frustrated Leveller demand to fruition and casting the revolution against Britain as a revolution against privilege in America.

Adam Gopnik's Great-Man Theory

[christianornot]

The Men Without Monuments

In 2026, America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. On July 4, 1776, a group of men signed a document that changed the course of history. They declared that the thirteen colonies were no longer subjects of the British Crown and that a new nation would take its place among the nations of the earth. Yet the United States as we know it today did not spring fully…

The Men Without Monuments

[whencyclopedia]

Founding Fathers of the United States

The Founding Fathers of the United States were the leaders of the American Revolution (c. 1765-1789), who led the push for American independence from Great Britain, founded the United States, and oversaw the implementation of the US Constitution in the tumultuous years following the war.

While the term 'Founding Father' can apply to many influential individuals from the American Revolutionary period, this collection looks at 15 of the most significant. It includes the men who spearheaded the initial struggle against Parliament in the 1760s, the writers of the Declaration of Independence, influential figures in the Second Continental Congress, which oversaw the course of the American Revolutionary War, as well as the first five presidents of the United States.

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[renegadeurbanmediasource]

It's crazy that people damn near worship those Founding Slave Masters! Those bitched and moaned about King George, tyranny, and "freedom.". Then, to take the edge off they probably went home and raped and beat their SLAVES! White people will try to KILL you if you say something "mean" about those subhumans! Washington OWENED over 300 PEOPLE as a sitting president. A wet, bedbug-infested couch had more rights than I did in 1776! Fuck em and anybody that looks like em!

[digitalyarbs]

John Adams' Life Mask De-aged.

Witness the authentic visage of John Adams, preserved in his life mask, alongside a de-aged version that envisions how he might have appeared in as a young man. The life mask vividly portrays the impact of aging, revealing the ninety-year-old Adams without teeth, as he chose not to wear dentures.

Although the original life mask provides a exact likeness of Adams' facial features, the de-aged portrait may not perfectly capture his appearance during his younger years.

See more life mask reconstructions of historical figures at yarbs.net.

[psychedelicsacrifice]

This guy guy helped me with this idea @tenurialwalk898

[sir-william-hoe]