American Revolution

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"The Cause": Historian Joseph Ellis on our Revolution's complex legacy

Tom Hall

The Pulitzer Prize winning historian finds that today's national divisions over race, national identity and democratic ideals were already seething at the time of the American Revolution.
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

Sheilah Kast

In his new history: "Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom," Russell Shorto Russell Shorto traces the disparate lives of six people in the 18th…