SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution
- The SAR’s charter, granted by the United States Congress in 1906, enjoins the SAR to be an educational organization. As such, the SAR sponsors several educational programs, including the SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution, which is designed to facilitate university-level study of the American Revolution. The Purposes of the SAR Annual Conference
- To hold a high quality, intellectually stimulating, annual academic conference that explores a subject related to the American Revolution.
- To produce a peer-reviewed, edited volume of the papers presented at any given SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution.
Sons of the Father: George Washington and His Protégés
In Sons of the Father, leading scholars analyze Washington's relationships with men such as Daniel Morgan, Anthony Wayne, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Henry Knox, Nathanael Greene, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and the Marquis de Lafayette. The men on whom this volume focuses were not all his closest associates.
Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History The essays in this book explore how individual biographers have shaped history—as well as how the interests and preoccupations of the times in which they wrote helped to shape their portrayals of Jefferson. In different eras biographers presented the third president variously as a proponent of individual rights or of majority rule, as a unifier or a fierce partisan, and as a champion of either American nationalism or cosmopolitanism.
Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America's Future The America of the early republic was built on an experiment, a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could find its way through its past and into a future. Americans recognized that its promises would only be fully redeemed at a future date. In Revolutionary Prophecies, renowned historians Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf summon a diverse cast of characters from the founding generation—all of whom, in different ways, reveal how their understanding of the past and present shaped hopes, ambitions, and anxieties for or about the future.
Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World
Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the question, What was life like for women in the era of the American Revolution? The contributors examine how women dealt with years of armed conflict and carried on their daily lives, exploring factors such as age, race, educational background, marital status, social class, and region.