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The Enlightenment, Common Sense, and the American Revolution: A Conversation with Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld – Part III

A featured image that brings together images of Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld and Adel Aali from the interview, alongside a collage of Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld's book "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in the Modern World".

Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution To fully comprehend the American Revolution, we have to study the developments that frayed relations between Great Britain and its American colonies in the Pre-Revolutionary Era, generally understood as the years between 1763, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, and 1775, when open and violent […]

The Enlightenment, Common Sense, and the American Revolution: A Conversation with Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld – Part II

Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution To fully comprehend the American Revolution, we have to study the developments that frayed relations between Great Britain and its American colonies in the Pre-Revolutionary Era, generally understood as the years between 1763, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, and 1775, when open and violent […]

The Enlightenment, Common Sense, and the American Revolution: A Conversation with Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld – Part I

A featured image that brings together images of Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld and Adel Aali from the interview, alongside a collage of Enlightenment-era philosophers—Adam Smith, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, the Marquis de Condorcet, René Descartes, and John Locke.

Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution To fully comprehend the American Revolution, we have to study the developments that frayed relations between Great Britain and its American colonies in the Pre-Revolutionary Era, generally understood as the years between 1763, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, and 1775, when open and violent […]