From Common-place, a special issue on the conference “The American Revolution Reborn”. Liam O'Melinn (Ohio Northern): Our Discrete and Insular Founders: American “Degeneracy” and the Birth of Constitutional Equality. Thomas A. Foster on his book Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. Thomas Jefferson was a Muslim: Abbas Milani reviews Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg. If only Thomas Jefferson could settle the issue: The official transcript of the Declaration of Independence may contain an errant period that contributes to what one scholar calls a “routine but serious misunderstanding” of the document. Inevident Truths: Patrick Woods on why current international norms and policies may not have supported the American Revolution. The real story of American independence: Elias Isquith interviews Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. Timothy Taylor on the economic underpinnings of the U.S. Revolutionary War. 1776, not just the Revolution: Claudio Saunt on how we forget that across a continent, the future United States was being shaped in other ways. What if America had lost the Revolutionary War? Uri Friedman on a Fourth of July thought experiment. Was there in fact an American Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century? Clearly, this is a question that generates much controversy. Robert Tsai on why Americans love to declare independence: The 1776 Declaration was only the first; what we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed. Ben Schreckinger on why there will never be another American revolution: Our bars are too loud, our cafes too quiet.
