Analyzing American Revolution - AARevolution.net

Although one of Europe's greatest powers is largely absent from the American story, it was anything but absent during the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and the Continental Congress sought to break...

America's independence was not complete in 1776. The Declaration announced independence, but the United States still needed Britain—the empire it had rebelled against—to recognize it as a nation. It also needed to...

The American Revolution has never had one settled meaning. Americans have fought over its memory from the founding generation to abolitionists, Confederates, Cold War conservatives, immigrants, filmmakers, and modern...

In this interview, Dr. Steven Pincus compares America's rise with some of history's greatest empires, including Rome, Britain, Qing China, Spain, France, and the Dutch Republic. He explains why America's emergence as a...

The Declaration of Independence almost had no legal authority. The delegates themselves weren't entirely sure what authority they possessed. Britain dismissed the Declaration as little more than a political pamphlet...

January 1 to July 4, 1776, transformed Americans from rebellious British subjects fighting Britain for their rights and hoping for reconciliation into revolutionaries seeking complete separation from the mother country...

Fishing rights. Press gangs. Forced military service. These are not the stories most Americans learn about the American Revolution. Yet maritime workers fought British naval impressment, Parliament's restrictions on...

Spain helped the American Revolution—but not because it believed in American independence. Rather, because it wanted revenge against Britain, recovery of lost territory, and protection of its own empire. In this...

The Founders rejected a national church. Not because religion was unimportant, but because they feared it could divide and destroy the fragile new republic. The American Revolution was fought by Protestants, Catholics...

<p>The Quartering Act. Forced British soldiers into colonial homes. A major cause of the American Revolution.</p><p>At least, that's the story many Americans learned.</p><p>The reality is far more surprising. The law...

<p>A secret homosexuality trial inside the British Army. Single men taxed but denied the vote. Colonies that feared unmarried men more than same-sex relationships.</p><p>This interview examines parts of Revolutionary...

<p>Royal blackmail. A cross-dressing spy-decorated soldier diplomat. A ruined American patriot. A genius playwright, clockmaker. Spies. Secret arms deals. </p><p><br></p><p>Before the Franco-American alliance became...

<p>Half the population in Revolutionary America was made up of immigrants and their descendants. Germans, Irish, enslaved Africans, indentured servants, and even foreign soldiers shaped the politics, land conflicts, and...

<p>Taverns were not just places to drink during the American Revolution. They were communication hubs, recruiting centers, political clubs, propaganda networks, and spaces where ordinary colonists transformed anger into...

<p>The American Revolution promised liberty. But inside the household, almost nothing changed.</p><p>Married women did not gain legal identity. Enslaved women had none to begin with.</p><p>And the same system that...