Featured Scholar
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A Network of Scholars Interpreting
the American Revolution
In Analyzing American Revolution, 33 scholars — and counting — explore the Revolution from 33 distinct and often competing perspectives through in-depth video interviews with Adel Aali.
Scholars featured on AAR represent a range of themes and perspectives, reflecting the program’s commitment to rigorous and diverse historical inquiry.
Below is a growing list of historians and scholars who have contributed to the program, with links to their interview pages—each serving as a reference guide to their work and participation, including their biography, major publications, the full interview with timestamped highlights and transcript, and related materials from across the series, listed in order of publication from earliest to most recent.
Intellectual Foundations
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Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld
University of Pennsylvania
The Enlightenment and Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution
—Did Enlightenment ideas cause the American Revolution—or simply give it language and meaning?
“But he’s insisting that both there’s nothing particularly radical in what he’s arguing, because anyone with common sense would know it, and also that ordinary people could probably rule on their own just fine.” Dr. Rosenfeld (00:34:08)
The Interview
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Intellectual Foundations
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Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld
University of Pennsylvania
The Enlightenment and Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution
—Did Enlightenment ideas cause the American Revolution—or simply give it language and meaning?
“But he’s insisting that both there’s nothing particularly radical in what he’s arguing, because anyone with common sense would know it, and also that ordinary people could probably rule on their own just fine.” Dr. Rosenfeld (00:34:08)
The Interview
S1E1 AAR