Course Description
01:512:301 The American Revolution
- Academic Credits: 3
- Mode of Instruction: Lecture
Syllabus: pdf Fall 2022 (231 KB)
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Course Description
The American Revolution continues to shape the way Americans think about government, rights, violence, and war, and the way the rest of the world thinks about the United States. This will become increasingly apparent as we approach the 250th anniversary of the event in 2025/2026. This course charts the creation of the American Republic from the French and Indian War to the formation of a new national government under the Constitution. We focus primarily on the Revolution itself: its causes, its larger Atlantic context, the way Patriots, the British and Hessians, Loyalists, and Native Americans fought it; and its consequences for the many peoples of America and the new United States.
