American War of Independence

D. C. Schindler explores the difference between revolution as negation and revolt and revolution as a radical return to deeper origins. (50 minutes)

Darrell Falconbourg explains the tensions inherent in the word “revolution,” which in the classical sense meant a return to an origin and in modernity means a total rupture with the past. (41 minutes)

FROM VOL. 48 Historian Jon Butler explains how aspects of modernity were already present and at work in colonial American life prior to 1776. (12 minutes)

Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden explain how a prominent Christian Founding Father added momentum to the secularization of America