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The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of natural law, natural rights, consent of the governed, individualism, property rights, self-ownership, self-determination, liberalism, republicanism, and defense against corruption.
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution. Oup USA. ISBN 9780199746705. Greene, Jack P.; Pole, J. R., eds. (2003). A Companion to the American Revolution (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 9781405116749. Hattem, Michael D. (2013). "The Historiography of the American Revolution". Journal of the American Revolution. Archived from the original on 2018-08-26
Two years later, Bailyn published a revised and expanded version of this introduction, entitling it The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Bailyn argued that "the 'progressive' historians of the early twentieth century" dismissed "the Revolutionary leaders' professed fears of 'slavery' and of conspiratorial designs as what by then ...
Reviews in American History. 46 (1): 14– 20. ISSN 0048-7511. JSTOR 48558671. Kloppenberg, James T. (2017). "Review of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804". The Journal of American History. 104 (3): 756. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 48548985. Orr, Ittai (2017). "The Room Where It Happened: Race and the American Revolution ...
A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. New York: New Press, 2001. Robson, Eric. The American Revolution in its Political and Military Aspects, 1763–83. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966. OCLC 425602. Savas, Theodore P. and J. David Dameron. A Guide to the Battles of the American ...
American Revolutionary War – war of independence between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States that was fought from April 19, 1775 to September 3, 1783. The war was fought as part of the broader American Revolution , in which the Thirteen Colonies made a declaration of independence in response to disputes regarding political ...
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 is a nonfiction book about the American Revolution written by American historian Robert Middlekauff.Covering the history of the American Revolution from around 1760 through to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, The Glorious Cause focuses mainly on the military history of the American Revolutionary War and on the ...