HIST 662A The American Revolution
This class introduces graduate students to the complex historiography of the American Revolution. An iconic moment in American history, the Revolution has, unsurprisingly, also generated a tremendous amount of scholarship. We will study approaches both classic and new, paying attention to the way scholarly study of the Revolution has been shaped by the circumstances of American (and international) life in the centuries since it occurred. In particular, we will ask whether the field has moved from narrowly American questions ("who are we?") to questions about the Revolution as part of an enmeshed Atlantic or global world in an era of globalization ("where are we?").