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American Revolutionary Geographies Online

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

via American Revolutionary Geographies Online on February 8, 2022

Statue of Stonewall Jackson, on its side in slings and propped up by tires, in front of its graffiti-covered pedestal.

What the 1619 Project Got Wrong

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

by James Oakes via Catalyst on December 17, 2021

Photo illustration of two hands pulling New York Times Magazine article

The Historians Are Fighting

Inside the profession, the battle over the 1619 Project continues.

by William Hogeland via Slate on October 30, 2021

A cracked picture of Washington crossing the Delaware River.

The Incoherence of American History

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

by Osita Nwanevu via The New Republic on August 11, 2021

Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Against the Consensus Approach to History

How not to learn about the American past.

by William Hogeland via The New Republic on January 25, 2021

How the 1619 Project Took Over 2020

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

by Sarah Ellison via Washington Post on October 13, 2020

Governors Must Hold Firm on Stay-at-Home Orders

Weariness of strong government is a key American tradition. But equally important is the revolutionary idea that national governance should come from the states.

by Liz Covart via Made By History on April 20, 2020

The Revolutions

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

via Future Of America's Past on March 16, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

A Matter of Facts

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

by Sean Wilentz via The Atlantic on January 22, 2020

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on January 20, 2020

Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.

by Sarah Swedberg via Nursing Clio on January 13, 2020

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.

by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019

Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The American Founders Made Sure the President Could Never Suspend Congress

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.

by Eliga Gould via The Conversation on September 3, 2019

It Isn’t Independence Day For Everyone

If the British had won the Revolutionary War, things might be very different for Native Americans.

by Steve Teare via The Nib on July 4, 2019

In Defense of the American Revolution

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

by Tom Cutterham via Jacobin on July 4, 2019

America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on July 4, 2017

From Boston's Resistance to an American Revolution

How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.

by Mark Boonshoft via New York Public Library on February 28, 2017

Furniture and carpet store in the 1789 Boston directory.

Revolutionary Spirit

On the widespread boycotts of British-made goods in the American Colonies.

via BackStory on December 15, 2016

The Accidental Patriots

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

by Caitlin Fitz via The Atlantic on December 1, 2016

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016

Not Our Independence Day

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

by William Hogeland, Jonah Walters via Jacobin on July 4, 2016

Skull and crossbones with message reading "This is the place to affix the STAMP."

Paying Up: A History of Taxation

From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?

via BackStory on April 12, 2013

Engraving of the burning of Portland, Maine, in 1776

The Biggest Coverup of the American Revolution

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III. But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.

by Andrew Lawler via The Bulwark on July 4, 2025

Photograph of the author reviewing documents in the Percy collection with its curator Christopher Hunwick and owner Ralph Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland

Discovered: First Maps of the American Revolution

Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston.

by Edwin S. Grosvenor via American Heritage on April 30, 2025

A monument of the Minutemen line in Concord, Massachusetts.

The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.

by Eran A. Zelnik via HNN on April 15, 2025

Colonists in front of the Old State House in Boston.

‘King Hancock’ Review: The Biggest Name in Boston

More than an artful calligrapher, John Hancock forswore the austerity of his fellow Bostonians, and their extremism.

by William Anthony Hay via The Wall Street Journal on October 6, 2023

A painting of the American Founders at the Constitutional Convention.

Inventing American Constitutionalism

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.

by Gordon S. Wood, Brian A. Smith via Law & Liberty on March 10, 2023

Henry Arthur McArdle’s The Battle of San Jacinto (1895), depicting the final battle of the Texas Revolution of 1836.

The Long American Counter-Revolution

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on December 8, 2022

Ocean waves and cloudy skies.

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

by Phillip W. Magness via Reason on March 29, 2022

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