The American Revolution is a fundamentally important event in international history.

The course touches on key events and themes of the nation’s founding. These include: 18th Century empires; Indigenous North America; slavery; the Enlightenment; French & Indian War; colonial taxes; Declaration of Independence; military campaigns; Constitution; Early Republic; women’s activism and rights; Black Americans’ fight for freedom and citizenship; commercial revolution; War of 1812.

“This great American revolution, this recent political phaenomenon of a new sovereignty arising among the sovereign powers of the earth, will be attended to and contemplated by all nations…Navigation will carry the american flag around the globe itself; and display the thirteen stripes…and with commerce [America] will import the wisdom and literature of the east…there shall be an universal traveling too and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. This knowledge will be brought home and treasured up in america; and being here digested and carried to the highest perfection, may reblaze back from america to europe, asia and africa, and illuminate the world with truth and liberty.”—Ezra Stiles, The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor, 1783