#american-revolution
America’s British History: The First Continental Congress (1774): Colonial America’s First United Political Action
Great Events in Colonial American History – Article 20 The British Context The First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia on 5 September 1774 in response to the Coercive Acts—known in America as the “Intolerable Acts”—that Parliament had passed in t…
The American Revolution Wasn’t That Big a Deal
Daniel Immerwahr on the scholarship deprovincializing 1776, including “Republic and Empire,” by Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy; and “Freedom Round the Globe,” by Sarah Pearsall.