> In [email protected], Jane Stilwell <mejan...@...> wrote: > Thanks again, to another Libertarian...extremely valid points that I > can agree with...only 13% of the colonists were behind the American > Revolution (the first one!), and even they likely couldn't agree on > what to have for lunch, much less how to define freedom, and > whether or not to vote against a 'tax protester/avoider' from the > jury box. I need to save your comments and refer to them daily, > until I can recite them in my sleep!!!
You need to study more history. To make it more fun and personal, I suggest that you start by doing some genealogy. Talk with relatives and find the names, dates of birth and death and places of residence of, oh, say, your grand-parents or great-grand-parents. Then search for the names on the net. There are specialist sites like genforum.genealogy.com and ancestry.com and www.familysearch.org (no, they don't pay me) but you might be able to find quite a bit just using ixquick or dogpile. ancestry has images of census pages, draft registration cards, some marriage bonds, some property records. familysearch is the Mormonite church site, and they've been indexing/ extracting info for several years to make it searchable by the public without charge, plus older data submitted to the church family history division by members and others, 1880 census data, and the Socialist Insecurity Death Index. If you search on google books you might find some old public domain history and genealogy books that have been scanned into pdf files as page images that mention some of your ancestors. I found preachers and judges and back-woods travelers and butchers and soldiers and teachers and ranchers and senators and cabinet members and members of parliament and wagon-train leaders and lawyers and iron smelters and welders and farmers and newspaper publishers, the occasional founding father and president and Amerindian (these last 3 waaay distant cousins), from a thoroughly muttly variety of origins, and, yes, distillers. A decent book: _The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution_ by Thomas Slaughter. Some books call it the Whiskey or Whisky Insurrection, so you might try a few variations. Washington pardoned the Whiskey Rebels.
