American Revolution

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• 4/18/2021
  

  Who Won the American Revolution?

  by Guy Chet

  Almost since the smoke cleared after the Battle of Lexington, Americans have debated the relative merits of the militias and the Continental Army in fighting the British. The relative esteem of each group has followed changes in the politics of the nation. 

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• 1/31/2021
  

  Democracy, Violence, and the Legacy of the American Revolution

  by David W. Houpt

  Although many of the Capitol rioters claimed to defend the Constitution, their actions reflect ideas derived from the Revolutionary period that the people have the right to resist tyranny by force. The Constitution sought to check that impulse by establishing a representative republic and a cultural bargain to live by the results of elections, but the two ideas have never been resolved.

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• SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
  8/18/2020
  

  How Not to Read Bernard Bailyn

  by Asheesh Kapur Siddique

  Conservatives lionizing Bernard Bailyn for supporting libertarian interpretations of the nation's founding and valorizing the founders "aligns perfectly with the reactionary effort to cancel critically engaged understandings of the American past, but poorly with Bailyn’s own far more nuanced vision of historical practice."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/7/2020
  

  Eminent Scholar of Early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, Dies at 97

  An acknowledged landmark in scholarship, Bernard Bailyn's “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” won the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize in 1968. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/6/2020
  

  ‘Hamilton’ and the Historical Record: Frequently Asked Questions

  The Disney+ filmed version has fans wondering what’s accurate. Historians are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.

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• 7/5/2020
  

  But Why Is America Exceptional?

  by Guy Chet

  Political separation from Britain allowed old English traits to remain preserved in America, like a bug in amber, even as they were whittled away by change in the old country. 

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• SOURCE: Law & Liberty
  6/22/2020
  

  A Master Historian at Work

  by George H. Nash

  The award-winning historian's reflections on the writing and teaching of history offer a master class in the scholar's art. 

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• 3/27/2020
  

  An Interview with "Most Wanted" Author Sarah Jane Marsh

  by Chelsea Connolly

  "Although I use individuals such as Adams, Hancock, and Paine as a vehicle for the story, I want readers to understand the American Revolution was ultimately a mass movement of the people."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/19
  

  244-Year-Old Rifle Stolen Decades Ago Is Returned to Museum

  The Johann Christian Oerter rifle, taken from Valley Forge State Park in 1971, will go on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  November 1, 2019
  

  The Evil Repercussions of the American Revolution

  A review of Matthew Lockwood's book "To begin the world all over again: how the American Revolution devestated the globe". 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/4/2019
  

  NPR's Cokie Roberts and Rachel Martin Answer Listener Questions About Women And American Independence

  Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Post Examiner
  6/9/2019
  

  The hidden history of the conspiracy to kill General George Washington brought to light

  Authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch offer insight into a little known chapter in the saga of America’s finest son.

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• SOURCE: WHYY
  6/1/2019
  

  American Revolution libraries to merge into one historical powerhouse

  Once in Philadelphia, the David Library will become the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society.

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• SOURCE: Voice of America
  1/11/19
  

  Historian Susan Schulten on How Maps Provide a Special View of American History

  Early maps helped establish a national identity and loyalty for the United States in its early days.

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• 1/13/19
  

  A Tyrant's Temper Tantrum

  by Ed Simon

  How the History of England's 17th Century Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War Shows the Shutdown's Potential to Spur Radical Change

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• 6/24/18
  

  Where Are the Moderates?

  by Joyce Lee Malcolm

  In tumultuous times like these, they have trouble gaining traction, as this example from the American Revolution shows.

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• 4/1/18
  

  You Remember the American Victory at Cowpens, Don’t You?

  by Jim Stempel

  Probably not. (It was in the American Revolution.) But here’s why you should. It was a key to the victory at Yorktown.

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• 11-3-17
  

  We’ve Been Missing This One Key Fact About General George Washington

  by Thomas Fleming

  What made him a great leader in the Revolution was his willingness to change strategy mid-way through the war.

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• 8-31-17
  

  Whatever Your Thoughts About Robert E. Lee, You're Bound to Admire His Ancestor, Richard Henry Lee

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  He was the First Founding Father – and he believed blacks deserved to be free.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-19-17
  

  Why the second American Revolution deserves as much attention as the first

  by Gregory P. Downs

  It is not hard to see why people celebrate Independence Day and forget the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, even though that period was, in many respects, a Second Founding that re-created the republic and the Constitution.