The Colonial Period

Posted by John Crandall Jul 31, 2007

I've been going back through some of my old books, and rereading with a focus on Colonial America. There is so much to cover, and my articles are so short that I could spend months on this period, but in the interest of keeping a diverse and interested audience, I may try to move forward and come back a little bit more. My real specialty and area of greatest personal knowledge is the 1850s, secession, and civil war. My second major area of interest is the Revolution and founding of the United States. I may try to begin a rotation doing an article from each period as I refresh my colonial knowledge and get my favorite views of the Revolution, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers into article form. With installments from my mid 19th Century researches.

I really love the ideologies, and like to seek paralells and differences in ideology from one period to another. It is very informative to seek the consistencies from widely divergent periods, and also the differences. I am very much a believer that there are always different ways of perceiving the same information, and how the historiography of various ideals and beliefs demonstrates the perspectives of the Historians and their times. History itself is both the facts of the past that have been recorded in various ways, and the perspectives of Historians who have lived in differingt time periods..