Video Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and author of Kissinger: A Biography, traces Benjamin Franklin’s life from runaway apprentice to Founding Father, exploring the breadth of his passions and accomplishments as writer,...
News Register for Teacher Seminars on Colonial Life, the Revolution, and Black Lives in the Founding Era From the first colonies to our beginnings as a constitutional republic, Teacher Seminars offer educators the chance to learn about America’s early days from our nation’s top historians. Explore our Teacher Seminars on early American...
History Now Essay The US and Spanish American Revolutions Jay Sexton Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History If one says "American Revolution" in the United States today, it is assumed that what is being referred to is the North American liberation struggles against the British Empire in the late eighteenth century. But the British North... Appears in: 34 | The Revolutionary Age Winter 2012
News New Self-Paced Course: The Age of Revolutions: 1775-1804 Situating the struggle for American independence amidst the broader transformations of the Age of Revolutions, Iona College Professor Nora Slonimsky explores the meanings and scope of revolution, both in the long eighteenth century...