Profs & Pints DC: America's Revolution as a World Revolution

Profs and Pints DC presents: “America's Revolution as a World Revolution,” an electrifying global history of a not-so-local war, with Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park and author of the new book The American Revolution and the Fate of the World.

When we think of the American Revolution, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. But this version of the story is only half the truth—and perhaps not even the most interesting half.

Join historian and author Richard Bell for an evening in which you’ll rediscover the Revolution as a world war, one that unleashed chaos, opportunity, and transformation across six continents.

You’ll learn how, from the sugar fields of the Caribbean to the court of the King of Mysore, from refugee camps on the Canadian frontier to political uprisings…