This course investigates the American Revolution in the context of upheavals in the broader Atlantic World between 1763 and 1815. We organize our inquiry into the emergence of the United States around the themes of liberty, loyalty, and legacy. We investigate the choices and experiences of people of African, European, and North American descent, the high-born and the humble, during a tumultuous half-century. Peoples, nations, and empires contested and transformed the concept of liberty. In the process, men and women of this revolutionary age reimagined their loyalties with long lasting legacies for the borders, boundaries, and identities that have shaped the modern world.
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