Listings for posts & works-in-progress from the REVOLUTION SKETCHBOOK (1776-2026):
BIG WATCH EVENTS | Historical Context | NH Stories | Thomas Paine | John & Abigail Adams | Declaration of Independence
EVENTS:
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TO BE POSTED: Dover (1676) | Plymouth | Bradford Pines | …
HISTORICAL CONTEXT MINIS:
The SEVEN YEARS WAR 🌎 North America (1756-1763)
THE CHALLENGE: Can we show the entire war, one year per page?
COMMON CAUSE (1763-1773)☕ Acts of Parliament before the Revolution
An 8-page mini to help keep all these PRE-WAR LAWS in order…
“This Tea Is Too Cheap!” #1 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 1767-1773)
Revolution’s brewing in colonial Boston…
“This Tea Is Too Cheap!” #2 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 16 Dec. 1773)
Hot-takes from Abigail + Sam + John Adams & the Town of Boston…
COMMON CAUSE (1774+)🔥 More Acts before the Revolution
More PRE-WAR LAWS & reactions to ’em…
NEW HAMPSHIRE STORIES:
CONSTITUTION COMICS #1: “New, Strange & Terrible Doctrines” 💭 (w/ Prof. Updike-Schulzke)
“For the People [are] the Source of all Authority…” ~ John Adams!
NH State COMICStitution 📜✏️ 1776 Preamble
“WE, the members of the CONGRESS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE…” ~ Drawn from the world’s first modern constitution!
NATIONAL & STATE CONSTITUTIONS: What’s the Difference? 📜 (w/ Prof. Williams)
“50% of Americans don’t even realize they have a STATE constitution!”
TO BE POSTED: Constitution #2+ (Grants Controversy, Writing & Ratification, &c.)
NH’s Black Revolutionaries
Hundreds of African American men from New Hampshire served in the American Revolution. Their stories highlight New England’s complicated history of slavery, freedom, and community.
NH State COMICStitution 📖 1784 Bill of Rights (Articles #1-12 & 83a)
The official “Live Free And Draw” adaptation of the original 1784 text…
1779 Petition to End Slavery in NH
WORK IN PROGRESS // Drawn from an 18th century antislavery text…
THOMAS PAINE:
COMMON SENSE: Asylum (1776)📜 Thomas Paine
Issues of debate from 250 years ago…
“The King of America” 👑⛏️ Thomas Paine / Common Sense (1776)
It’s early 1776, & Tom Paine has an idea for a new civic holiday…
“From a Small Spark” 🔥 Thomas Paine (1792)
Envisioning worldwide awakening in “The Rights of Man (Part the 2nd)”
JOHN & ABIGAIL ADAMS:
“Objects of the most Stupendous Magnitude…” 🌠 John Adams (9 June 1776)
Writing from the Continental Congress, on the eve of the Declaration of Independence!
WRITING THE DECLARATION #1 📜 John Adams (1776)
Taking us into the room where it happened…
DRAWN / YET TO POST:
- “The Greatest Question Ever!!” / Letter to Abigail / 3 July 1776
- “What do we mean by REVOLUTION?” / Letter / 1818
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
- Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies…” (March 1776)
DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE:
D.I.Y. Declaration of Independence 📖✏️ (POSTER EDITION)
What does this REVOLUTIONARY SENTENCE look like when YOU draw it out…?
D.I.Y. Declaration of Independence 📖✏️ Preamble (TEMPLATE BOOKLET)
Let’s take a moment to cartoon the core ideas of the US government ~ You might be surprised by how it looks!
“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)
Revolution as civic duty…
1776 CRIMES OF THE KING
Drawn from the “List of Grievances” in the US Declaration of Independence…
