At the end of the Revolutionary War, those who remained loyal to the British Crown departed America either to return to Britain or to settle in other colonial territories. Many relocated to Canada, ...

Racial justice protesters have turned their sights toward problematic statues, and people are mad about it. Monuments dedicated to Confederate leaders, slavers and other historic figures have been ...

The plight of American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War has been largely forgotten. Harvard historian Jasanoff (Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850) ...

What happens to people who take the losing side in a revolution or a civil war? In this ambitious, empathetic and sometimes lyrical book, Maya Jasanoff tells the story of the Loyalist exiles of the ...

As the American Revolutionary War raged, thousands of slaves fled their owners and joined ranks with the British army, buoyed by hopes of winning freedom and defeating their colonial oppressors. There ...

Maya Jasanoff, an historian of British Imperialism at Harvard, has recently published “Liberty’s Exiles,” a fascinating study of the Americans who sided with the British during the Revolutionary War.

As the war enters its sixth year, the Continental Army is starting to show signs of fraying. After British victories in the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Waxhaws, British soldiers under ...

List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...

2011-10-08T12:05:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8c4/301645-10-m.jpgMaya Jasanoff talked about her book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the ...