
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
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T.H. Breen is the author of several books on the American Revolution, most recently The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America. (March 2021)
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
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
In 1777 Vermonters declared themselves citizens of an independent republic and ratified one of the most liberal, egalitarian constitutions in American history. How did a populist movement led by a violent, charismatic figure give birth to a stable democratic society?
Ethan Allen: His Life and Times
by Willard Sterne Randall
April 5, 2012 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
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
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