1775-1783 Archives

1775-1783

Smuggler Nation

By Peter Andreas, from his book out this month from Oxford University Press. Andreas is a professor of political science at Brown University. The agents moved in to seize the…

-O-u-r- man in Chile

by Harper’s Staff,

Don’t judge his heart

by James S. Bowman,

Is our notion of the founding fathers' "characters" relevant material for history?

Portrait of Louis XVI

by Philip Guedalla,

A monarch who aided America--and why

America’s debt to Beaumarchais

by John Preston Beecher,

The Real Fourth of July

by Paul Leland Haworth,

Beginnings of American diplomacy

by John Bassett Moore,

New light on revolutionary diplomacy

by Angela Henrietta Channing Dana Skinner,

The coming of peace

by Woodrow Wilson,

Colonies and Nation

by Woodrow Wilson,

A short history of the people of the United States ([part XI])

Hannah the Quakeress. An incident of the Revolution

by Ednah Proctor Clarke,