American Revolution

At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.

Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'

Economists and historians have been telling us the wrong story about Continental currency for two centuries.

Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.

"Outlander" challenges the myth of American exceptionalism at the root of much U.S. popular culture.

A Green Mountain Boy's controversial death and its consequences.

Enslaved conspirators in far-flung Accomack County forced some whites to rethink any legislative efforts aiding Black Virginians.

Lost wars, especially when defeat comes as a rude surprise, inevitably spark painful self-examination.

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.

How Bernardo de Galvez turned the tide against British supremacy on the continent.

How British protestantism connected colonies and empire until the rupture of the American Revolution.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Discover the stories, spaces, and people of the American Revolutionary War era through maps, interpretive essays, and interactives.

At the same time nature influenced the tide of war, British political and military decision-making compounded their environmental challenges.

Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.

The author of ‘Founding Brothers’ tries to capture the breadth of the War for Independence in a single narrative.

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?

There have been at least eight provinces in British North America labeled the "fourteenth colony." They cannot all claim the same title.

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.

Artists captured and honored the intensity of the American Revolution, but the bravery and role of Black men in the war was not portrayed.