Origins and ideologies of the American Revolution

Part 1. Lecture 1. Self-evident truths

Lecture 2. Ideas and ideologies

Lecture 3. Europeans of colonial America

Lecture 4. Natives and slaves of colonial America

Lecture 5. The colonies in the Atlantic world, c. 1750

Lecture 6. The Seven Years' War

Lecture 7. The British constitution

Lecture 8. George III and the politics of empire

Lecture 9. Politics in British America before 1760

Lecture 10. James Otis and the writs of assistance case

Lecture 11. The search for order and revenue

Lecture 12. The Stamp Act and rebellion in the streets

Part 2. Lecture 13. Parliament digs in its heels, 1766-1767

Lecture 14. The crisis of representation

Lecture 15. The logic of loyalty and resistance

Lecture 16. Franklin and the search for reconciliation

Lecture 17. The Boston Massacre

Lecture 18. The British Empire and the Tea Act

Lecture 19. The Boston Tea Party and the Coercive Acts

Lecture 20. The First Continental Congress

Lecture 21. Lexington and Concord

Lecture 22. Second Continental Congress and Bunker Hill

Lecture 23. Thomas Paine and Common Sense

Lecture 24. The British seizure of New York

Lecture 25. The Declaration of Independence

Lecture 26. The war for New York and New Jersey

Lecture 27. Saratoga, Philadelphia, and Valley Forge

Lecture 28. The creation of state constitutions

Lecture 29. Jefferson's statute for religious freedom

Lecture 30. Franklin, Paris, and the French alliance

Lecture 31. The Articles of Confederation

Lecture 32. Yorktown and the end of the war

Lecture 33. The Treaty of Paris of 1783

Lecture 34. The crises of the 1780s

Lecture 35. African Americans and the Revolution

Lecture 36. The Constitutional Convention

Lecture 37. The United States Constitution

Lecture 38. The Antifederalist critique

Lecture 39. The Federalists' response

Lecture 40. The Bill of Rights

Lecture 41. Politics in the 1790s

Lecture 42. The Alien and Sedition Acts

Lecture 43. The election of 1800

Lecture 44. Women and the American Revolution

Lecture 45. The Revolution and Native Americans

Lecture 46. The American Revolution as social movement

Lecture 47. Reflections by the revolutionary generation

Lecture 48. The meaning of the Revolution.