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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 In a New Documentary, One of Britain’s Most Famous Historians Reframes the American Revolution as a ‘Messy Divorce’

🔗 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-a-new-documentary-one-of-britains-most-famous-historians-reframes-the-american-revolution-as-a-messy-divorce-180988457/

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In a New Documentary, One of Britain's Most Famous Historians Reframes the American Revolution as a 'Messy Divorce'

Lucy Worsley's PBS series highlights the emotional fallout of the conflict, with a focus on the British perspective

Smithsonian Magazine
Apr 11 at 11:09amWeb
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@bibliolater Does the documentary address how this "messy divorce" framing might downplay the economic and ideological drivers, like taxation and representation, that are central to the traditional narrative of the Revolution?
Show thread✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋1d ago

@hannaB Both points you raise are dealt with in the article.

Thank you for commenting.