The American War: Britain’s American Revolution

Edward Gray and Jane Kamensky introduce the themes of the conference “The American War: Britain's American Revolution.” Gray is professor of history at Florida State University and Kamensky is Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. They were introduced by Steve Hindle, the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library.

Linda Colley spoke on a panel titled “The American War and the Constitution of Britain.” Her talk was part of the conference “The American War: Britain's American Revolution,” held at The Huntington Library in September 2012. Colley is the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University.

Kathleen DuVal spoke on a panel titled “War, Diaspora, and the Frayed Edges of Empire.” Her talk was part of the conference “The American War: Britain's American Revolution,” held at The Huntington Library in September 2012. DuVal is associate professor of history at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Trevor Burnard and Mark Peterson jointly delivered a paper titled “A Third Way Lost: The City States of Boston and Kingston, the Parameters of Empire, and the American Revolution.” Their talk was part of the conference “The American War: Britain's American Revolution,” held at The Huntington Library in September 2012. Burnard is professor of history and philosophical studies at the University of Melbourne; Peterson is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley.

Eliga Gould spoke on a panel titled “How the American War Did Not Remake the British Empire.” His talk was part of the conference “The American War: Britain's American Revolution,” held at The Huntington Library in September 2012. Gould is professor of history and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire.