151 Defining the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
What do we mean by the American Revolution? How do we define it? Was it a war? Was it a movement? Was it a series of movements? The Doing History: To the Revolution! Series seeks to explore not just...
12 Sep 201753min
150 Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator
Abigail Adams lived through and participated in the American Revolution. As the wife of John Adams, she used her position to famously remind Adams and his colleagues to "remember the ladies" when they...
5 Sep 20171h 2min
149 Benjamin Franklin in London
Over the course of his long life, Benjamin Franklin traveled to and lived in London on two different occasions. The first time he went as a teenager. The second, as a man and colonial agent. All told ...
29 Aug 201756min
148 Betsy Ross
How did everyday men and women experience life in the colonial America? How did the American Revolution transform their work and personal lives? Marla Miller, a professor of history at the Universit...
22 Aug 201749min
147 British Soldiers, American War
What about the British Redcoats? When we discuss the military history of the American War for Independence, we tend to focus on specific battles or details about the men who served in George Washingt...
15 Aug 201748min
146 George Washington's Revolution
What drove George Washington to become a Patriot during the American Revolution? How did he overcome the ill-trained and inexperienced troops, inadequate pay, and supply problems that plagued the Con...
8 Aug 201753min
145 Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
Mercy Otis Warren wasn’t your typical early American woman. She was a woman with strong political viewpoints, which she wrote about and published for the world to see and consider. Did anyone take he...
1 Aug 20171h 2min
144 The Common Cause of the American Revolution
How do you get people living in thirteen different colonies to come together and fight for independence? What ideas and experiences would even unite them behind the fight? Patriot leaders asked them...
25 Jul 201756min
