Racial justice protesters have turned their sights toward problematic statues, and people are mad about it. Monuments dedicated to Confederate leaders, slavers and other historic figures have been ...

The plight of American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War has been largely forgotten. Harvard historian Jasanoff (Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850) ...

First up: How a huge marble complex is changing our understanding of ancient Greece: “Nothing like this monumental complex has ever been found from this period in or around Greece before. Although the ...

For eight months in 1777, an American Loyalist—pledging continued allegiance to the British crown in the early stages of the American Revolution—found himself in solitary confinement in Connecticut’s ...

What happens to people who take the losing side in a revolution or a civil war? In this ambitious, empathetic and sometimes lyrical book, Maya Jasanoff tells the story of the Loyalist exiles of the ...

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History celebrates winners and often forgets losers. Yet it is worth remembering on this Independence Day that Americans both won and lost the Revolutionary war. The struggle for independence was as ...

As the American Revolutionary War raged, thousands of slaves fled their owners and joined ranks with the British army, buoyed by hopes of winning freedom and defeating their colonial oppressors. There ...

List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...

2011-10-08T12:05:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8c4/301645-10-m.jpgMaya Jasanoff talked about her book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the ...