Topic: “American Revolution”

Privateers for American freedom

A review of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin.

On the end of the American Revolution.

On “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

On the American Revolution, Victorian Art, British country houses & more from the world of culture.

A review of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era, by Craig Bruce Smith.

On the making of an American enigma, occasioned by a new biography of his early life.

On Constable, colonial furniture, the perennial Pope & more from the world of culture.

On Homer’s photos, Brooklyn by boat, poetic Pushkin & more from the world of culture.