Colloquium with Jessica Roney

Join us in the OI Conference room, Swem Library, campus of William & Mary, for a discussion of “Separate Creations: Political Community and Loyalty in the 1790s.” Jessica Roney is an associate professor at Temple University. Her first book, Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia, studies voluntary associations and civic culture… Read More

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Jessica-Roney

When Did America Really Become Independent?

Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and the author most recently of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. When I teach the American Revolution, I often ask my students, when did the United States become independent? The conventional… Read More

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