In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress faced a question every new nation must answer: how do you make other countries take you seriously? Declaring independence was one thing. Convincing France, Spain, or the Netherlands to risk war on your...
The American Revolution wasn’t just a War for Independence. The Revolution was part of a wider age of revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic World. Ronald Angelo Johnson, the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University, joins us...
When we think of the American Revolution, it’s easy to focus on famous battles like Saratoga or Yorktown, iconic leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence. But International...
You know “America’s favorite fighting Frenchman” is the Marquis de Lafayette. But what do you know about Lafayette and his life? How and why did this French-born noble end up fighting in the American Revolution? Mike Duncan, a self-described history...
Before the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 or the Dutch settled near Albany, New York in 1615, a group of French-speaking, Catholic settlers established a settlement in Nova Scotia in 1605. By 1755, nearly 15,000 Acadians lived in...