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Handwritten gear-workshop comic links Saratoga in 1777 to the French alliance in 1778, illustrated with a French ship, coins, and supplies.

Military Turning Points and the French Alliance: Saratoga to 1778

Explain Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga and the French alliance of 1778. Compare military results, treaty commitments and Valley Forge with CLEP practice.

Handwritten comic contrasts Common Sense challenging monarchy in January 1776 with the Declaration justifying separation in July 1776.

Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence: Key Differences

Compare Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence: Paine’s arguments, Congress’s purpose, rights, grievances and the 1776 dates. Includes CLEP practice.

Handwritten satchel comic carries a Continental Army drum and Olive Branch Petition beside a Lexington and Concord marker dated April 19, 1775.

Lexington, Concord and the Move toward Independence: 1775 Explained

Handwritten harbor comic shows Boston port locked in 1774 as relief, correspondence, and Congress ribbons illustrate coordinated colonial resistance.

Tea Act, Coercive Acts and Intercolonial Resistance Explained

Handwritten homespun comic shows a colonial woman weaving cloth during nonimportation, with the tea duty retained in 1770.

Townshend Duties, Boston and Nonimportation Explained

Handwritten printer-workshop comic shows the Stamp Act of 1765, molasses in 1764, and the unresolved question of consent after repeal in 1766.

Sugar and Stamp Acts: Taxation, Representation and Protest

Handwritten comic shows a crowned purse pulling war-debt, troops, and administration costs beside a Proclamation of 1763 barrier in wooded mountains.

Proclamation of 1763: War Debt, Land and Colonial Resistance

Handwritten garden metaphor depicts Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo, and Haudenosaunee as distinct trees, with British and French claim-scrolls outside.

Ohio Valley Rivalry: Native Diplomacy and the Albany Plan

Hand-drawn colonial assemblymen hold the governor’s salary purse strings while he holds royal instructions; a customs official continues work nearby.

Colonial Government and Salutary Neglect: Powers and Practice

Linocut-style comic shows a colonial press sending reason, observation, and debate toward a shared newspaper reading, with a magnifying glass and prism.

Enlightenment and Print Culture: Ideas, Franklin and Zenger

Brush-pen comic depicts an itinerant colonial preacher with interested New Lights and skeptical Old Lights, showing differing responses to revival preaching in the 1730s and 1740s.

First Great Awakening: Revival, New Lights and Social Limits

Hand-lettered graphite and gouache illustration of a Black elder sharing oral memory with a child, with a constrained rice-plantation landscape beyond the window.

Enslaved Community, Culture and Resistance: Agency and Limits

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