Was the American Revolution a Civil War? Story of American Loyalists

Introduction In this interview: “If it helps, John Adams famously said it was one-third, one-third, one-third, one-third patriot, one-third loyalist, and one-third in the middle. And there’s something to that. I would say it’s probably 25% patriot, 25% loyalist.” Watch this segment in the video below (00:15:38). Was the American Revolution a Civil War? The […]

Concord’s Crisis: A Town Pushed to the Edge Long Before the Revolution

Introduction In this interview: “And they hold a muster and they don’t get enough people.” Watch this section in the video below (00:11:45). Concord, Massachusetts, on the eve of the American Revolution, was far from a small simple farming town. Beneath its seemingly quiet rural setting lay a community in social, political, generational and economic […]