The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries. Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolut...

In "Past and Prologue", Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Ame...