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The American Revolution’s Starving, Barefoot, Heroic Troops

Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.
by Jay Cost via National Review on May 27, 2019

Purchasing Patriotism: Politicization of Shoes, 1760s-1770s

Materials themselves, like shoes reflected and shaped political cultures around the revolutionary Atlantic and World.
by Kimberly S. Alexander via Age of Revolutions on March 4, 2019

The American Revolution’s Greatest Leader Was Openly Gay

“Baron Von Steuben” was responsible for whipping the U.S. military into shape when things were looking bleakest.
by Josh Trujillo, Levi Hastings via The Nib on June 1, 2018

The American Revolution was a Huge Victory for Equality. Liberals Should Celebrate it.

The left is turning its back on the Revolution. Here's why that's a mistake.
by Jeff Stein via Vox on July 4, 2017

No 'King of Kings'

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.
by Sara Georgini via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 3, 2017

Your Revolution Was Dumb and it Filled Us With Refugees

A Canadian take on America's Revolutionary War.
by Tristin Hopper via National Post on July 3, 2017

The American Revolution Revisited

A nation divided, even at birth.
via The Economist on June 29, 2017
Gilbert Motier, the Marquis De La Fayette

Why Has America Named So Many Places After a French Nobleman?

The Marquis de Lafayette's name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner.
by Laura Auricchio via Zócalo Public Square on June 22, 2017
Painting of Washington on horseback as his soldiers trudge through snow to Valley Forge.

The Conservative Revolution of 1776

The leaders of the Revolutionary War — and their vision for the nation — were far from revolutionary.
by Diana Muir Appelbaum via The New Rambler on May 29, 2017
A Continental soldier in the Revolutionary War holding a tattered American flag and standing on chains.

We Could Have Been Canada

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on May 8, 2017

“We Lost Our Appetite for Food”: Why Eighteenth-Century Hangriness Might Not Be a Thing

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via Nursing Clio on April 20, 2017

The Accidental Patriots

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.
by Caitlin Fitz via The Atlantic on December 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
A reenactment of a Revolutionary War battle.

Placing the American Revolution in Global Perspective

Why did the American Revolution succeed while other revolutions in the same time period did not?
by Steven Pincus via Age of Revolutions on June 20, 2016
Illustration of British soldiers fighting colonial soldiers.

Road to Revolution: 1763-1776

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by James Walsh via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015

3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on July 2, 2015

Bellatrix and the American Revolution

240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.
by Alex Cacioppo via Public Books on March 9, 2015
Trump wearing a crown, superimposed on a lithograph of the Boston Massacre.

Trump Is the Enemy of the American Revolution

He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.
by Johann N. Neem via The New Republic on August 11, 2025
Storming of Redoubt 10 during the Siege of Yorktown, 1840 painting by Eugène-Louis Lami.

Painting the Revolution: The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence

Art, politics, and revolution intertwined as transatlantic Patriots used wax, paint, and wit to shape the fight for American independence.
by Zara Anishanslin via Literary Hub on July 17, 2025
An 1880 Harper's Weekly illustration titled Women at the Polls in New Jersey.

Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment

Vague phrasing enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A 1790 law explicitly allowed female suffrage, but this privilege was revoked in 1807.
by Peter Zablocki via Smithsonian Magazine on July 8, 2025
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
Fabric with stars on one side and George Washington on the other.

The ‘Dirty and Nasty People’ Who Became Americans

How 13 colonies came together.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via The Atlantic on July 4, 2025
Lithograph depicting General Washington leading his troops in battle against British troops.

Why George Washington Integrated the Army

The commander-in-chief initially barred black soldiers from joining the ranks, but he came to understand the value—both moral and strategic—of a diverse force.
by Andrew Lawler via The Bulwark on June 16, 2025
John Trumbull painting of the death of American General Richard Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec.

How the Thirteen Colonies Tried—and Failed—to Convince Canada to Side With Them In the Revolution

After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775.
by Eli Wizevich via Smithsonian on May 12, 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
Harvard University "veritas" seal displayed on flags on its campus.

Harvard Stood Up to Trump. Too Bad the School Wasn’t Always So Brave.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.
by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on April 16, 2025
A monument of the Minutemen line in Concord, Massachusetts.
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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
Patrick Henry giving a speech to a crowd of Virginians.

What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?

How a dispute with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor made the southern colonies’ embrace the radical cause.
by Andrew Lawler via Smithsonian on April 4, 2025
Map of Boston in 1776.

Terrains of Independence

Why was Boston and Massachusetts the site of so much early Revolutionary activity?
by Garrett Dash Nelson, Katy Lasdow via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on April 2, 2025
Painting of Troops, an American Flag and Eagle.

Echoes of Lexington and Concord

The 250th anniversary of "the shot heard round the world" is a reminder of the rights the Patriots fought for.
by Richard Alan Ryerson via Law & Liberty on April 1, 2025
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