American Revolution Blog

Of all the historians of early America, Gordon Wood is my favorite. His book The Radicalism of the American Revolution was one of the man...

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 . By Laurel Ulrich. (New York: Random House Inc., 1990. Pp. 352....

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday , and both books are on topics relating to this blog! Hooray! The winner for the 20...

Here is a short clip of historian Richard Brookhiser on the religion of the founders. Brookhiser argues that the founders never intended to ...

Jon Meacham , Editor for Newsweek Magazine and author of the book, American Gospel has officially finished his third work of history. In hi...

Historian Gary Nash of UCLA is not only one of the most respected historians on early American history, but has also received praise for th...

Author Steven Waldman of Beliefnet.com discusses his newest book, Founding Faith . Though the video is a little long it is definitely worth...

The newest book by the highly acclaimed early American historian, Gordon Wood, has finally hit stores. The Purpose of the Past: Reflections ...

Here is an interesting video for you all. Three biographers (Ellis, McCullough and Isaacson) discuss the role of our key founding fathers. ...

In recent years, a number of self-proclaimed "scholars" have attempted to jump into the historical arena, in the belief that ...

Renowned historian, David McCullough, has revealed that his next book will be a history about Americans in Paris. As a young man, McCullough...

The 2008 winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced to the public yesterday, and though this year's winner in the history category is ...

The highly acclaimed historian/biographer, Ron Chernow, has announced his newest project. Chernow has decided to write an unprecedented bio...

Since I currently have no major reading assignments in any of my classes, I have enjoyed the freedom of being able to read books of my own c...

I realize that I just posted an Ellis video, but I thought you all might enjoy this one in light of our "heated" debate on Lincoln...

Here is another topic that is sure to cause debate. Of all the books written on the American Revolution, what are the Top 5 most influential...

Historian Joseph Ellis expounds on the reasons that democracy cannot, and should not, be exported or "forced" on other nations and...

There seems to be a never ending stream of books and debates on the topic of religion and the Founding Fathers. You would think that after l...

I've been looking for a video clip of Gordon Wood for months and finally found one! Here in this clip, Gordon Wood addresses an audience...

Here is a long but excellent video on the women of the American Revolution. The video includes Cokie Roberts,the author of the book Founding...