The American Revolution
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website:
"This seminar will proceed from two premises: 1) that the Revolution had many meanings to its diverse participants; and 2) that its causes, dynamics, and outcomes, have been interpreted and reinterpreted, ever since. Therefore, we will read secondary works of various historians who have disagreed sharply on how to interpret the American Revolution; and we will examine a variety of primary documents through which we can better understand how people at the time understood what they were fighting for and what outcomes they hoped to enjoy. 'Who shall write the history of the American Revolution?' wrote John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (in 1815). 'Nobody,' Jefferson replied, 'except merely its external facts . . . The life and soul of its history must be forever unknown.' Almost two centuries later, let's discover the answers to that question for ourselves."