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This year marks the beginning of American semiquincentennial celebrations—our 250th anniversary as an independent nation. That independence was earned only with an eight-year war against the most powerful empire on earth. How did we do it? Why did we do it? What does the American Revolution tell us about who we were and who we have become? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson, in the process of writing a trilogy about the Revolution, offers his insights.
This year marks the beginning of American semiquincentennial celebrations—our 250th anniversary as an independent nation. That independence was earned only with an eight-year war against the most powerful empire on earth. How did we do it? Why did we do it? What does the American Revolution tell us about who we were and who we have become? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson, in the process of writing a trilogy about the Revolution, offers his insights.
