T. H. Breen

The conventional telling of America’s origin story leaves out perhaps its greatest heroes.

What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.

What are the most important insights historians have offered about the American Revolution in the decades since the Bicentennial?

Lost wars, especially when defeat comes as a rude surprise, inevitably spark painful self-examination.

The drive for American independence coalesced in only a few years of rapidly accelerating political change.

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.