Pt. 1: Introduction -- The significance and problems of the Revolution -- Historians and the Revolution -- A guide to the bibliography of the Revolution -- Pt. 2: causes -- The imperialist ...
Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...
Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...
This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...
Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, The American Revolution. At a moment when we are once again arguing about ...
Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. And in an exclusive interview, ...
In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...
The Georgetown County Library (GCL) is pleased to announce a series of upcoming public educational programs as part of “A Glorious Cause: South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Public History ...
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