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University Woody Holton
Award-winning historian Woody Holton reveals that the perennially popular Founding Mother has been woefully underestimated and that, although staunchly traditional in some areas, she was surprisingly modern, particularly when it…
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Woody Holton
A celebrated scholar’s history of the American Revolution, from its origins to its aftermath, which emphasizes the contributions of groups usually omitted in this story: Native Americans, African Americans, and…
In this fresh look at liberty and freedom in the Revolutionary era from the perspective of black Americans, Woody Holton recounts the experiences of slaves who seized freedom by joining…
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A reinterpretation of the American Revolution. Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain…
In this fascinating examination of recent scholarship in early American Republic historiography, Woody Holton shifts the focus away from the typical Founding Fathersmodel towards the contributions of distinct social groups…
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution
Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history of the average Americans who…
Addresses the broad pattern of events that framed the causes of the seven years of war in North America, the intercultural dynamics of its conduct, and its profound impact on…
Addresses the broad pattern of events that framed this conflict’s causes, the intercultural dynamics of its conduct, and its profound impact on subsequent events-most notably the American Revolution and a…
