From the Editor
“The happiness of America is intimately tied to the happiness of all humanity,” the young Marquis de Lafayette wrote in 1777. His comment suggests the immediate and the long-range impact of a revolution that was one of the first successful wars of colonial liberation and that established the first modern republic. Soon after the creation of the United States, revolutions would break out in France and in Haiti. And, in the centuries that followed, the desire for liberation from colonial powers would lead to revolutions, and to independence...More »
The Historian's Perspective
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Essays
The Social and Intellectual Legacy of the American Revolution by Gary Nash
Lockean Liberalism and the American Revolution by Isaac Kramnick
The Righteous Revolution of Mercy Otis Warren by Ray Raphael
The Indians’ War of Independence by Colin G. Calloway
Unruly Americans in the Revolution by Woody Holton
The Declaration of Independence in Global Perspective by David Armitage
Featured Primary Sources
The Stamp Act, 1765
A report on reaction to the Stamp Act, 1765
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
The Articles of Confederation, 1777
Jefferson on the French and Haitian Revolutions, 1792
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836