American Revolution : Essays on the Founding Era

The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives of men and women throughout the colonies. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, they reinvented their lives, their communities, and their vision of the world.

Drawing from the pathbreaking scholarship published by the Omohundro Institute over the past fifty years, these essays reflect on the experiences and legacies of the struggle for American independence, from the first inklings of the imperial crisis through the war’s global aftershocks.

Contributors include David Armitage, Christopher Leslie Brown, Katherine Carté, Eliga H. Gould, Woody Holton, Rhys Isaac, Michael J. Jarvis, Maya Jasanoff, Linda K. Kerber, Cynthia Kierner, Michael A. McDonnell, Johann N. Neem, Mary Beth Norton, Robert G. Parkinson, Benjamin Quarles, John A. Ruddiman, Manisha Sinha, and Alfred F. Young.

Nicholas Popper is professor of history at William & Mary and former interim editor of books at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the oldest organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to the study of early America. Since 1947, the OI’s editorial team has partnered with the University of North Carolina Press to produce field-defining books, which have won over two hundred prestigious prizes. The OI is also the publisher of the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal of early American history and culture.