This course focuses on three topics: political developments in North America and the British Empire and the arguments for and against independence, culminating in the Declaration of Independence; the Revolutionary War as a military, social, and cultural event in the development of the American nation and state; and the United States under the Articles of Confederation.
Instructors: Mickey Craig is the William & Berniece Grewcock Professor of Politics and Chairman of the Department of Politics at Hillsdale College. Dr. Craig is also a Fellow of the John M. Ashbrook Center. Natalie Taylor is Associate Professor of Government at Skidmore College. She is the author of The Rights of Woman as Chimera: the Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft and the editor of A Political Companion to Henry Adams.