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Painting of the Continental Congress

The Pursuit of Happiness: New Approaches to the American Revolutionary Past

A new way to think about the American Revolution.
by Kevin Diestelow via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on June 28, 2021
Miniature portrait of Benjamin Tallmadge.

George Washington's Culper Spy Ring: Separating Fact from Fiction

Bill Bleyer dives into the secret Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution while disproving many of the urban myths surrounding the characters involved.
by Bill Bleyer via Journal of the American Revolution on June 3, 2021
John Jay painting

Slavery as Metaphor and the Politics of Slavery in the Jay Treaty Debate

The manner in which the debate unfolded is a reminder of the ways slavery affected everything it touched.
by Wendy Wong Schirmer via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on April 12, 2021
An illustration of two men in 1770s clothing fighting in a river.

Has the World Gone Mad? An Interview with Sarah Swedberg

Swedberg's new book shows how prevalent concerns about mental illness were to the people of the early American republic.
by Sarah Swedberg, Rebecca Brannon via Nursing Clio on March 25, 2021
Illustration of Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, the likely inspiration for Molly Pitcher, stoking a cannon for the U.S. Pennsylvania artillery during the Battle of Monmouth.

Molly Pitcher, the Most Famous American Hero Who Never Existed

Americans don't need to rely on legends to tell the stories of women in the Revolution.
by Cassandra A. Good via Smithsonian on March 17, 2021
Tyler Stovall and his book

The History of Freedom Is a History of Whiteness

A conversation about whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.
by Tyler Stovall, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on March 17, 2021
Jacob Lawrence.

Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.
by Rachel Himes via Jacobin on February 4, 2021

Taverns and the Complicated Birth of Early American Civil Society

Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America, embodying both its tumult and its promise.
by Vaughn Scribner via Aeon on November 23, 2020
COVID-19 particles with the bill of rights written over them

The Forgotten Third Amendment Could Give Pandemic-Struck America a Way Forward

An overlooked corner of the Constitution hints at a right to be protected from infection.
by Alexander Zhang via The Atlantic on October 21, 2020

Foreign Support of the American Cause Prior to the French Alliance

Richard J. Werther discusses how being outmanned by the best army in the world led American revolutionaries to look overseas for the help they needed.
by Richard J. Werther via Journal of the American Revolution on September 8, 2020
Two drawings, one of a woman on the left and one of a man on the right

Minorcans, New Smyrna, and the American Revolution in East Florida

The little-known story of the laborers who became pawns in a Floridian struggle during the American Revolution.
by George Kotlik via Journal of the American Revolution on August 27, 2020

A Loyalist and His Newspaper in Revolutionary New York

The story of James Rivington, the publisher who got on the wrong side of the Sons of Liberty.
by Joseph M. Adelman via The Gotham Center on August 25, 2020
American Revolution-era political cartoon showing elites signing trade document at behest of working-class.

Fight For Economic Equality Is As Old as America Itself

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.
by Daniel R. Mandell via The Conversation on August 4, 2020
Phillis Wheatley

How Phillis Wheatley Was Recovered Through History

For decades, a white woman’s memoir shaped our understanding of America’s first Black poet. Does a new book change the story?
by Elizabeth Winkler via The New Yorker on July 30, 2020
French military marching in practice for the Bastille Day Parade.
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The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on July 14, 2020
A Continental Army soldier's shirt and a detail from a painting depicting a soldier wearing such a shirt.

“Natives of the Woods of America”

Hunting shirts, backcountry culture, and “playing Indian” in the American Revolution.
by Marta Olmos via The Junto on July 14, 2020

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on June 2, 2020
Detail from the painting Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy, featuring Franklin and Hamilton.

The Founders' Moral Mind Was Revolutionary, and Free

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.
by Bradley J. Birzer via The American Conservative on April 2, 2020
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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

These Newly Digitized Military Maps Explore the World of George III

The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell.
by Sara Georgini via Smithsonian on February 20, 2020
Portrait of George Washington in his military uniform.

The Gun Guy and Illegal Militia Founder Who Became President: George Washington

Our first President understood that armed citizens are essential to American freedom.
by David Kopel via Reason on February 17, 2020
Painting of George Washington, altered to show him holding a stack of cash.

The Founding Generation Showed Their Patriotism With Their Money

History suggests the value of a broader understanding of patriotism, one that goes beyond saluting-the-flag loyalty and battlefield bravery.
by Tom Shachtman via The Atlantic on February 7, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.
by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020
Peale family portrait.

Domestic Tranquility: Privacy and the Household in Revolutionary America

British occupation brought challenges to the very foundation of the American home.
by Lauren Duval via Uncommon Sense on October 22, 2019

The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.
by T. H. Breen via Literary Hub on September 23, 2019

The Great Fear of 1776

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.
by Jeffrey Ostler via Age of Revolutions on September 23, 2019

The Fourth of July Has Always Been Political

The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.
by David Waldstreicher via The Atlantic on July 4, 2019

What to an American Is the Fourth of July?

Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic 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

The Universalist Principles of the Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence advocates for liberty and equality. We would do well to remember those principles today.
by Ilya Somin via Reason on July 4, 2019
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