Articles
Brett Hahn’s own writing, newest first. The library holds other people’s documents; these are his arguments about them.
All 79 first appeared on AmRev Resurrected, and each one says so and links the original.
Since the export, on AmRev Resurrected: 76 Rules of Command, Rule 23: Hold the Ground Until You Cannot Stand, published October 20, 2026.
September 15, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 13: Conserve Your Decisive Advantage for the Moment It Matters Most
Putnam at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
September 11, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 12: Hold the Line Through the Winter
Washington at Valley Forge, December 1777 to June 1778
September 8, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 11: The Pulpit and the Field Are the Same Commission
Muhlenberg at Woodstock, January 1776
September 4, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 10: The Man Who Handles the Crossing Makes Everything Possible
Glover at the Delaware, December 25-26, 1776
September 1, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 9: When the Institution Fails You Serve the Mission Anyway
Stark at Bennington, August 16, 1777
August 28, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 8: Make Your Reach Larger Than Your Strength
Clark at Fort Sackville, February 1779
August 25, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 7: When You Cannot Disengage Close the Distance
Jones at Flamborough Head, September 23, 1779
August 21, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 6: When Speed Is Your Weapon Do Not Slow Down to Reload
Wayne at Stony Point, July 15-16, 1779
August 18, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 5: Move the Thing Everyone Says Cannot Be Moved
Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery, Winter 1775-76
August 14, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 4: Lead From the Ground You Actually Stand On
Marion in the Pee Dee Swamps, 1780-81
August 11, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 3: Win the Campaign by Absorbing the Battle
Greene at Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781
August 7, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 2: Position Your Men Where Their Weakness Cannot Cost You
Morgan at Cowpens, January 17, 1781
July 17, 2026
76 Rules of Command, Rule 1: Take the Initiative Before You Feel Ready
Washington Crossing the Delaware, December 25-26, 1776
July 4, 2026
The Sermon That Started on a Hillside and Ended in Philadelphia
On the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
July 2, 2026
What the Revolution Was Really About
The Taxes Were the Match. The Formed Mind Was the Fuel.
June 29, 2026
What You Do With Your Phone Is What You Become
Freed. A Free Christian Formation App, Built for the Man Who Is Serious About the Walk.
June 23, 2026
Twelve Days. What to Do With the 250th.
A Free Man's Charge to the Anniversary of His Inheritance
June 11, 2026
Text, Doctrine, Reasons, Uses
The Declaration as the Closing Sermon of the American Founding
June 5, 2026
Disobedience to Tyrants Is Obedience to God
The Sermon That Lit the Revolution Twenty-Five Years Early
June 2, 2026
Why I Wrote Made for the Mountains
A Son of the American Revolution Returns to Christ and Finds Out They Were Always the Same Inheritance
May 29, 2026
Whitefield in the Open Field
The Preacher Who Made the Colonies One People
May 26, 2026
The Full Cost of the Revolution
25,000 Americans died. 6,800 in battle. 10,000 from disease. 8,500 on prison ships. Most people know the first number. Almost nobody knows the other two.
May 22, 2026
The Lost Institution
How America Forgot Its 250-Year Preaching Tradition
May 19, 2026
The Man Who Won the Midwest
He won Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin with 175 men. Then died in debt. Almost nobody knows his name.
May 15, 2026
The Three Covenants
How the 1630s Pastors Built the American Mind.
May 12, 2026
What Loss Built George Washington
He was supposed to go to school in England. He was supposed to inherit the estate. Both were taken at eleven. What he became was possible only because of what he lost.
May 8, 2026
The Fort That Changed Everything
Ethan Allen did not wait for permission. He took the fort, invoked the authority afterward, and sent cannons three hundred miles through winter to end the siege of Boston. That is what formed men do.
May 5, 2026
The First Crack
How One Sermon Unmade Five Thousand Years of Mental Slavery
May 1, 2026
60 Days That Built a Republic
From the shot heard round the world to Bunker Hill. No army. No treasury. No blueprint. Just formed men governing themselves faster than anyone thought possible.
April 28, 2026
The Home Is the First Republic
The Founders did not separate the private household from the public good. They built one from the other. We forgot that. The republic is paying for it.
April 24, 2026
The Shot No One Had to Fire
Isaac Davis spent the winter getting ready. He never fired a shot at North Bridge. He was killed in the first volley. That is the whole story.
April 21, 2026
What Produced the Men on Lexington Green
They were not soldiers. They were formed civilians. That is the point.
April 17, 2026
Forge the Son: What This Book Is and Why I Wrote It
A seventh great-grandson of the Salem Militia. A father of two. A man who watched his country forget how to think and decided to find out why.
April 14, 2026
The Mental Slavery the Founders Overcame, And We Are Rebuilding
For five thousand years the default condition of mankind was dependency. The Founders broke it. We are quietly restoring it.
April 10, 2026
What John Witherspoon Knew About Forming Men
He signed the Declaration. He trained Madison. He understood that liberty without formation is just another word for chaos.
April 5, 2026
The Revolution Was Already Over Before It Began
The Stamp Act didn't start a rebellion. It interrupted a republic already built.
March 11, 2026
The Cowboy Mind and the Algorithm
Why the AI Frontier Rewards the American Builder
March 2, 2026
The Builders Return
How the AI Frontier Revives the American Instinct to Build
February 27, 2026
Liberty in an Age of Abundance
How the American social contract, rooted in labor, virtue, and responsibility, must evolve as artificial intelligence reshapes scarcity, work, and human dignity.
February 22, 2026
The Next Frontier
Dominion, Discovery, and the American Mind in the Age of AI
February 19, 2026
Mass Formation vs. Moral Formation
Why the American Revolution Was Not Hysteria, But Conviction
February 13, 2026
Why Americans Laugh at Power
How Humor Became a Weapon of Liberty, and Why Tyrants Always Fear It
February 8, 2026
The American Mind Does Not Ask Permission
How a Self-Sufficient, God-Fearing Defiance Forged a New Kind of Man
February 5, 2026
The Republic Was Built Locally
How Self-Sufficiency and Community Forged the American Spirit, and Why We’re Returning There Again
January 25, 2026
The Blizzard That Froze the War: The Great Snowstorm of 1780
How a divine freeze brought empires to a halt and gave liberty a chance to breathe
January 8, 2026
Empire Never Retires: Franklin’s Republic and Britain’s War After the War
How the American Revolution Challenged Empire, and Why the Contest Never Truly Ended
January 3, 2026
The Battle of Princeton
How Washington turned retreat into resurrection, and planted the seeds of a Republic
December 29, 2025
The Ten Glorious Days
How Washington snatched a miracle from winter’s jaws and reshaped the soul of the Revolution
December 26, 2025
The Night the Revolution Froze
Before victory came suffering. Before glory came grit. This is the forgotten night that nearly broke the American cause.
December 21, 2025
The Divine Gamble: How Washington Chose Trenton
This was not desperation alone. It was discipline, intelligence, and faith aligned at the edge of history.
December 15, 2025
Before the Glorious Days: Washington on the Brink
The Revolution stood on the edge of collapse. Washington didn’t just save it, he resurrected it.
October 20, 2025
Faith Turned into Freedom: The Pulpit Patriots Who Forged America’s Soul
The American experiment began not in rebellion, but in revival; born in the hearts of men who saw self-government as sacred duty, not self-indulgence.
October 9, 2025
The Dutch Blueprint: How the Republic of Liberty Inspired America
How the Dutch defied an empire, bound kings to law, and gave the Founders a living model of moral freedom.
October 4, 2025
Jonathan Edwards and the Fire of True Virtue
How the Great Awakening forged the moral soul of early America.
September 28, 2025
Aristotle, Jefferson, and the American Pursuit of Excellence
A call to unbreak the modern mind and reclaim the Revolutionary spirit.
September 23, 2025
Fire on the North Sea: The Battle of Flamborough Head
How John Paul Jones defied the odds, torched British pride, and gave America a legend at sea.
September 17, 2025
Common Sense 2025
A challenge to reclaim liberty, virtue, and excellence.
September 14, 2025
Liberty Demands the Tongue: The American Duty of Free Speech
The Revolution was not won in silence. America became great because its people spoke boldly, argued fiercely, and never feared debate.
September 11, 2025
George Rogers Clark: Into the Wilderness (Part 1)
The frontier general who carved America’s destiny west of the Appalachians
September 4, 2025
Lewis & Clark: The Empire of Liberty Written in Ink and Blood
The Corps of Discovery was no mere expedition; it was survival, diplomacy, and sacrifice, where journals, alliances, and faith carried a young Republic to the edge of an empire.
August 28, 2025
The Great Revival on the Frontier: Cane Ridge and the Faith that Forged America
The Revolution tamed kings. The frontier tamed the land. But the Great Revival tamed hearts, gniting faith, virtue, and a spiritual fire that bound a scattered people into one Republic under God.
August 26, 2025
Mad Anthony Wayne & The Campaign That Saved the Republic
Discipline, fire, and the frontier war of 1794
August 24, 2025
The Northwest Indian War: America’s Forgotten Struggle
The decade of fire that nearly unmade the Republic
August 21, 2025
Pioneers & Frontier Families, Part II: The Untold Frontiers
Beyond Boone: The Forgotten Wars, Faith, and Families That Forged America’s Frontier
August 17, 2025
The Pioneers & Frontier Families
Frontier Republic Series, Part I: How pioneers, families, and frontier visionaries carried the Revolution westward, and how we must reclaim their spirit today.
August 15, 2025
Nation Builders: The Second Founding You Were Never Taught
How merchants, map-makers, speculators, surveyors, and saints turned independence into a working Republic.
August 10, 2025
Unbreaking the American Mind: From Mental Slavery to Revolutionary Spirit
How the American Revolution Freed the Mind, and How We Must Break the Chains Again
August 8, 2025
The Ratification Battles: The War for the Soul of the Republic
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists wasn’t just a fight over government structure. It was a battle over human nature, liberty, and the destiny of America; a battle that still echoes today.
August 3, 2025
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787: America’s Blueprint for Expansion
Land deals, political bargains, and the resistance that refused to die.
July 30, 2025
God, Liberty, and the Republic: How the Bible Shaped the American Mind
Before the muskets were raised, the Founders opened their Bibles. The Revolution began with a revelation.
July 23, 2025
The Roman Blueprint: How the Republic That Fell Shaped the One We Built
What the Founders learned from Cicero, Cato, Livy, Polybius, and why it still matters.
July 15, 2025
Athens in Philadelphia: How Solon, Pericles, and Thucydides Shaped the American Mind
Before the Founding Fathers forged a new Republic, they looked backward, to the ancient world, for the blueprints of liberty, law, and civic virtue.
July 11, 2025
The American Mind: Self-Governed, Self-Spoken, Self-Armed
To preserve the Republic, we must recover the original spirit of the citizen: locally rooted, mentally free, and armed with duty, not entitlement.
July 7, 2025
The Lost Republic of Self-Reliance
How the American Dream was built on grit, not government
July 5, 2025
The Moral Imagination of the Founders
Liberty without virtue is chaos. The Founders knew this, and built a republic for the soul, not just the law.
July 4, 2025
The Spirit of ’76: Inside the American Mind on the Fourth of July
How a band of imperfect patriots launched the boldest experiment in liberty the world has ever seen, and why the Spirit of ’76 still matters today.
July 4, 2025
The Declaration of Independence, Line by Line
A Deep Dive into the American Mind
July 4, 2025
The Revolution Never Ended — It Was Buried
Welcome to AmRev Resurrected.
January 3, 2025
The Battle of Yorktown