Archive for: Reconsidering REV250

“The Premise of Our Founding”: Immigration and Popular Mythmaking

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Connie Thomas responds to the recent JER conversation on the Revolution at 250 by reflecting on the long running tension between celebratory rhetoric of the United States as a nation of immigrants and the stark reality of exclusionary impulses.

Women’s Everyday Experiences of War during the American Revolution

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In response to the recent JER Conversation on the Revolution at 250, Lauren Duval offers further insight into new approaches to women's history and the Revolutionary War.

American Revolution or Revolutionary War?

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Inspired by the recent JER conversation on the Revolution at 250, Dillon Streifeneder considers how historians in recent years have worked to bring military history back into the history of the American Revolution.