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.
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