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How Did the Colonies Unite?

The drive for American independence coalesced in only a few years of rapidly accelerating political change.

1774: The Long Year of Revolution

by Mary Beth Norton

March 11, 2021 issue

‘There Was a Boston Once’

The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

by Mark Peterson

February 27, 2020 issue

Founding Frenemies

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

by Gordon S. Wood

December 20, 2018 issue

Camping with Honest George

On the Museum of the American Revolution

March 8, 2018 issue

Our Insurgency: From Concord to Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

by Nathaniel Philbrick

July 11, 2013 issue

The Vigilantes of Vermont

Ethan Allen: His Life and Times

by Willard Sterne Randall

April 5, 2012 issue

Now, Voyager

April 9, 1987 issue

New World Symphony

The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

by Bernard Bailyn

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

by Bernard Bailyn, with the assistance of Barbara DeWolfe

January 29, 1987 issue

Letter

Now, Voyager

April 9, 1987 issue

Right Man, Wrong Place

The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580–1631)

edited by Philip L. Barbour

November 20, 1986 issue

Founding Sons

A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War

by Fred Anderson

To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783

by E. Wayne Carp

December 5, 1985 issue

Credit for Innes

April 2, 1981 issue