I just finished watching the Ken Burns documentary, The American Revolution. 12 hours of drinking history through a fire hose! On the whole, Burns does a good job of presenting ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...

MR. SABINE has attempted in these volumes to present in a judicial spirit a chapter of our Revolutionary history which usually bears the most of passion in its recital, — believing, as he does, that ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry December 20, 2021 2021-11-21T15:52:28-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/78b/20211121155601002_hd.jpgH.W. Brands discusses the ...

Historian Brands (The Zealot and the Emancipator) delivers a page-turning account of the “bitter fight” between Americans “who wanted nothing to do with independence” and those who rebelled against ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great majority ...

For eight months in 1777, an American Loyalist—pledging continued allegiance to the British crown in the early stages of the American Revolution—found himself in solitary confinement in Connecticut’s ...

At the end of the Revolutionary War, those who remained loyal to the British Crown departed America either to return to Britain or to settle in other colonial territories. Many relocated to Canada, ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...