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American Revolution

Woody Holton reflects on Liberty is Sweet

John Fea   |  April 13, 2022

Over at the Age of Revolutions blog, historian Tom Cutterman of the University of Birmingham (UK) interviews University of South Carolina historian Woody Holton. The topic is Holton’s recent book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution....

The Author’s Corner with Jonathan Singerton

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 11, 2022

Jonathan Singerton is Lecturer of Global and Comparative Histories of Central Europe at the University of Innsbruck. This interview is based on his new book, The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led...

If you think the debate over American history is bad now, wait until 2026

John Fea   |  March 22, 2022

What will debate over history in schools look like in 2026, the year we celebrate America’s 250th birthday. Over at Time, John Garrison Marks of the American Association for State and Local History has some thoughts . Here is a...

2022 George Washington Book Prize finalists announced

John Fea   |  March 21, 2022

The George Washington Prize honors outstanding new works on George Washington and his times (the Revolutionary and founding eras circa 1760-1820). The $50,000 prize is sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon....

The Author’s Corner with S. Scott Rohrer

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 10, 2022

S. Scott Rohrer is a historian of early America. This interview is based on his new book, The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age (Penn State University Press, 2022). JF: What led...

My new toy

John Fea   |  February 10, 2022

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How Americans have remembered the July 1776 toppling of the George III statue in Bowling Green (Manhattan)

John Fea   |  January 28, 2022

Wendy Bellion, an art historian at the University of Delaware, has an interesting piece at Smithsonian Magazine on the patriots’ toppling of this statue and a New York Historical Society exhibit on monuments. Here is a taste: A monument to...

Stanford’s Jack Rakove is the latest historian to critique the 1619 Project

John Fea   |  January 24, 2022

Tom Mackaman of the World Socialist Web Site is back with another interview. Here is a taste of his conversation with Stanford’s Jack Rakove: TM: You mentioned it before, and we will need to turn to the 1619 Project, whose...

The Author’s Corner with Hannah Farber

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 6, 2021

Hannah Farber is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. This interview is based on her new book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What...

Abigail, an enslaved woman owned by John Jay, died in Paris trying to win her freedom

John Fea   |  November 24, 2021

Historian Martha Jones tells the story at The New York Times: Despite its many markers of memory there are some stories about the past that Paris does not tell. I am an African American historian who spends each summer in...

Gordon Wood and Woody Holton will debate the meaning of the American Revolution

John Fea   |  October 22, 2021

Learn how to watch Saturday’s debate here. It is sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Here’s more: Gordon Wood and Woody Holton are both distinguished scholars of the American Revolution. But they approach the founding very differently, as you can...

Albert Mohler interviews Gordon Wood

John Fea   |  October 8, 2021

The 87-year-old American historian has a new book out. It is titled Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution. Listen here. At about the 34:00 mark Mohler asks Wood about how he does history. Wood talks about the ahistorical...

Vaccine mandates are very American

John Fea   |  September 8, 2021

Ohio representative Jim Jordan recently tweeted this: Not really. Here is The Washington Post: At a time when the delta variant’s summer surge has renewed the nation’s divisions over coronavirus vaccines, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday said mandates enforcing...

Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.

John Fea   |  August 29, 2021

Liberty University president Jerry Prevo begins the journal with a quote from John Adams: Before my God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and...

Snakes and late colonial America

John Fea   |  July 24, 2021

My first or second year at Messiah College, the student history club produced t-shirts with Ben Franklin’s famous “Join or Die” snake image (see above) on the front. It was partly an attempt to raise the club’s membership. Messiah is...

Museums will play a key role as the United States heads toward its semiquincentennial in 2026

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

Here is John Garrison Marks at the blog of the American Alliance of Museums: While the US Semiquincentennial Commission outlined a broad vision for the commemoration in its 2019 Inspiring the American Spirit report—describing a grassroots commemoration that educates, engages, and unites...

Can the “spirit of 1776 survive the history wars of 2021?”

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

America’s 250th anniversary is coming. It should be interesting. Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: The story historians tell about the American Revolution has changed enormously since the Bicentennial. Uplifting biographies of the founding fathers may still...

Six things you may not know about the Declaration of Independence

John Fea   |  June 30, 2021

Historian Woody Holton explains at The Conversation: Ordinary Americans played a big role. American independence is due in part to African Americans. The complaints weren’t actually about the King. The Declaration of Independence does not actually denounce monarch. The Declaration...

Megachurch pastor Greg Laurie keeps pushing the links between the Great Awakening and the American Revolution

John Fea   |  June 17, 2021

Last week at the Sons of American Revolution conference on religion and the American Revolution, I started my keynote lecture this way: On April 5, 2020, Donald Trump announced (via Twitter of course) that he would be streaming the Palm...

Are we in the midst of a third American revolution?

John Fea   |  May 18, 2021

CNN legal scholar Carrie Cordero and historian Ed Larson at USA Today: We are all familiar with the first American Revolution: an actual war, a rebellion for self-governance. But it was not long after that Thomas Jefferson called the election of 1800...

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