As one of the original 13 colonies, New York state is home to many historic sites of the American Revolution. The peninsula ...
In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the ...
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British ...
Why were the British Caribbean colonies left out of the Revolution? Slavery explains it. We’ve been learning about the 13 colonies all our lives, so why did no one think to mention the British ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Albany County legislator Jeff Perlee, who chairs the county’s USA - 250 Commission, delivered this speech on May17 in Orsini Park at the close of Altamont’s Memorial Day Parade. It is certainly ...
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ON BOOKS | OPINION: Sarah Pearsall’s “Freedom Round the Globe” reframes the American Revolution as a global crisis
What makes "Freedom Round the Globe" especially valuable right now is that it resists two temptations simultaneously: patriotic simplification and fashionable cynicism.
Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different.
American colonists oppose efforts by the British Crown and Parliament to seize greater control in North America, escalating simmering tensions over land, taxes, and sovereignty into violent ...
In 1776 the task of doing so fell to two brothers, Richard and William Howe. They had a dual mandate: to crush the rebels and ...
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