American Revolution vs. American Isolationism

Eighteenth-century map of the Atlantic basin showing British territories in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and listed trading posts in Asia, predating the 1763 Treaty of Paris.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Revolution — and one we were barely taught in school — is its global context. What many of us learned in school was a story of colonial protest, British taxation, and rising American resistance. That story is not wrong. But it is incomplete. The American Revolution was […]