The 2013 book follows the Culper Spy Ring.
In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the ...
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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.
George Washington had Florida on his mind during the American Revolution ― a lot. The Father of the Nation was concerned about a British invasion coming from the South, specifically East and West ...
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 history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward's "The American Revolution: An Intimate History" and John ...
The story of the American Revolution is often framed as a heroic win over the British government. Brave colonists persevered through horrors like the Boston Massacre to overcome the tyrannical King ...
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