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Battlefield illustration by Keith Negley

What Was the American Revolution For?

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 10, 2025
John Adams, Jefferson's pamphlet on the Rights of British America, and Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon.

What Actually Changed in 1776

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.
by Edward J. Larson via The Atlantic on November 10, 2025
Oil painting of George Washington's inauguration as the first American president.

Loyalty Oaths and the Crisis of the American Revolution

The struggle over loyalty oaths reveals how Americans learned to wield faith and coercion in the name of freedom.
by Kevin Murphy via Age of Revolutions on November 3, 2025
Sliced and shifted John Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

America’s Founding Fathers Had No Faith in Democracy

On the inherent contradictions behind the American revolutionary dream.
by Joseph Ellis via Literary Hub on October 28, 2025
"Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution" book cover

What Hamilton—and the Book It’s Based On—Missed About Eliza and Angelica Schuyler

How Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due.
by Elizabeth Stone via Slate on October 21, 2025
Kaleidoscopic portrait of Eliza Schuyler.

The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.
by Jane Kamensky via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
The founders at the Constitutional Convention with the "We the People" as a backdrop.

“Shall We Have a King?”

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.
by William E. Leuchtenburg via American Heritage on October 10, 2025
Portrait of Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond reading by a tree.

Secrets of a Radical Duke

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery.
by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
National Guard soldiers patrolling in front of the White House.
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History Shows the Perils of Troops Policing American Cities

Sending Redcoats to American cities worked in the short term. But over time, it alienated even the colonists most loyal to the British.
by Donald F. Johnson via Made By History on October 9, 2025
William Franklin

Why Did Benjamin Franklin’s Son Remain Loyal to the British?

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.
by Stacy Schiff via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
Portrait of Patrick henry wearing a red robe.

No One Gave a Speech Like Patrick Henry

Henry’s fiery oratory turned words into revolution, merging faith, emotion, and democracy to help speak a nation into being.
by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
British flag with writing that says, "Liberty for Slaves."

The Black Loyalists

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.
by Andrew Lawler via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
A reenactor portraying a British soldier at Fort Ticonderoga.

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
by Caity Weaver via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
George Washington saying farewell to his officers in 1783.

Where George Washington Would Disagree with Pete Hegseth About Fitness for Command and a Warrior

Washington’s ‘warrior ethos’ was grounded in decency, temperance and the capacity to act with courage without surrendering to rage.
by Maurizio Valsania via The Conversation on October 2, 2025
Dr. John Kearsley, Jr.

The Loyalist Who Gave Birth to His Nightmare

Thomas Paine nearly died quarantined off in Philadelphia in 1774. Then a Loyalist doctor nursed him back to health.
by Richard B. Moriarty via Journal of the American Revolution on September 9, 2025
Gouverneur Morris.

The One-Legged Founding Father Who Escaped the French Revolution

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure.
by Zachary Clary via Smithsonian Magazine on September 2, 2025
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 Magazine 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 Magazine 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
Boston’s Faneuil Hall at night.

When Is History Advocacy?

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.
by Nick DeLuca via Contingent on March 30, 2025
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