First up: How a huge marble complex is changing our understanding of ancient Greece: “Nothing like this monumental complex has ever been found from this period in or around Greece before. Although the ...

List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...

As the American Revolutionary War raged, thousands of slaves fled their owners and joined ranks with the British army, buoyed by hopes of winning freedom and defeating their colonial oppressors. There ...

What happens to people who take the losing side in a revolution or a civil war? In this ambitious, empathetic and sometimes lyrical book, Maya Jasanoff tells the story of the Loyalist exiles of the ...

Maya Jasanoff, an historian of British Imperialism at Harvard, has recently published “Liberty’s Exiles,” a fascinating study of the Americans who sided with the British during the Revolutionary War.

Loyalists and the American Revolution. For Christians, there has always been a nagging question about whether the American Revolution was morally legitimate, given biblical admonitions to support the ...

As an American living in England, a country I greatly admire, I sometimes find myself asking: Did the colonists make a mistake when they rebelled against their British brothers? Were the Founding ...

The plight of American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War has been largely forgotten. Harvard historian Jasanoff (Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850) ...

2011-10-08T12:05:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8c4/301645-10-m.jpgMaya Jasanoff talked about her book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the ...