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  • Fighting over the Founders

    How We Remember the American Revolution

    Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution.The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the ... Read more

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  • Historians on Hamilton

    How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past

    America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how is the show itself making history?Historians on Hamilton brings together a collection of top scholars to ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of the American Revolution: Volume 2, Revolution

    Series series The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
    The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of the American Revolution: Volume 1, Revolutionary Contexts

    Series series The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
    The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of the American Revolution: Volume 3, Continuities, Changes, and Legacies

    Series series The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
    The third and final volume examines the American Revolution and its consequences, continuities, and legacies. Across thirty essays, ranging from broad, topical chapters to innovative, shorter 'viewpoints', the volume sheds light on how the American Revolution reverberated worldwide from the Constitution's ratification to twenty-first century cultural battles over the Revolution's meanings. ... Read more

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    The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

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