The American Revolution Professor Joanne Freeman, Professor of History Description The American Revolution entailed some remarkable transformations--converting British colonists into American revolutionaries, and a cluster of colonies into a confederation of states with a common cause--but it was far more complex and enduring than the fighting of a war. Texts Bailyn, Bernard. Brown, Richard D., ed. Cray, Robert E. Gross, Robert A. Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. McDonnell, Michael. Paine, Thomas. Raphael, Ray. Schwartz, Barry. Wood, Gordon S. Wood, Gordon S. Requirements Exams There is one midterm exam covering material discussed up through Lecture 13. Papers One paper, 3-5 pages long, is due the day of Lecture 9. Grading First paper: 15% Midterm exam: 20% Second paper: 25% Final exam: 30% Discussion section participation: 10%
Rag Linen | Online Museum of Historic Newspapers The 18th - Century Common | A Public Humanities Website for Enthusiasts of 18th-Century Studies Two Nerdy History Girls Our Last King Print Email Poor George III still gets a bad press. In their famous television talk in London, the Prime Minister of Great Britain suggested to the President of the United States that the kind of colonial policy associated with the name of George III still distorted the American view of the nature and function of the British Empire, and Mr. Eisenhower smilingly agreed. Actually, as we shall see later on, toward the end of his life and immediately after it his reputation improved, and even the writers of American school textbooks did not at first hold him personally responsible for the disasters that led to independence. Later historians held that these Tory incompetents, bent on personal government for their master, pursued a ruinous policy that ended only with the breakup of the first British Empire and a return of the Whigs to power. In 1760, George III mounted the throne. The increase in royal power drove the wedge of misunder-standing deeper between England and the colonies.
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