From Uncommon Sense
Check out the OI’s blog, Uncommon Sense, for posts over the past decade relating to the American Revolution, the founding generation, commemoration, and more!
Across America, 1776
- “2026 and Insurance: A Conversation with Hannah Farber”
- “2026 and Religion: A Conversation with Katherine Carté”
- Joseph M. Adelman, “Public Commissions for the 250th: What You Need to Know”
- Karin Wulf, “Blue Sky for the Fourth of July”
OI Books and Articles
- Blake Grindon, “Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution” (Feb. 2023)
- Catherine E. Kelly, “Time to Reset Your Syllabi, Vast Early America” (June 2021)
- Lauren Duval, “Domestic Tranquility: Privacy and the Household in Revolutionary America” (Oct. 2019)
- John Balz, “On the Road to Germany” (Aug. 27, 2018)
- Karin Wulf, “The OI Book That Made Me a Historian” (June 2018)
- Katherine Carté, “Politics, Religion, Then, Now” (Feb. 2018)
Independence and the Fourth of July
- Holly White, “The Many Meanings of the Fourth of July”
- Derrick R. Spires, “Dreams of a Revolution Deferred”
- Joseph M. Adelman, “Articles of Amendment: Copying ‘The’ Bill of Rights”
- Emily Sneff, “The Sounds of Independence”
- Eliga Gould, “When Did America Really Become Independent?”
Doing History: To the Revolution!
In 2017, the OI sponsored “Doing History: To the Revolution!” on Ben Franklin’s World. A 16-episode look at how historians think about the Revolution, the series was accompanied by weekly posts from scholars who extended the discussion.
- William Huntting Howell, “The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety and the War at Home”
- Holly A. Mayer, “Following the Army”
- John Fea, “The Greenwich Tea Burning: The Political and Religious Roots of Local Revolutionary Resistance”
- Eugene R.H. Tesdahl, “Smuggling, the American Revolution, and the Riverine Highway”
- Rachel B. Herrmann, “Histories of Hunger in the American Revolution”
- Dael A. Norwood, “Global Trade and Revolution: The Politics of Americans’ Commerce with China”
- Karin Wulf, “We’ve Been Doing History’s History”
Revolutionary Figures
- John William Nelson, “Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk” (Dec. 2021)
- Lindsay Chervinsky, “Women Also Know Washington” (March 2020)
- Edith B. Gelles, “Abigail and Tom” (July 2018)
- Karin Wulf, “Hamilton’s George III in London” (Dec. 2017)
