Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

A century before the Revolutionary War, Pueblo people defeated and expelled a European colonial power. The wooden roof of the mission church in Pecos was engulfed in flames, but the massive adobe ...