RW250 Roundtable Book Group

Professor Michael Crowder from Iona University’s Institute for Thomas Paine Studies moderated a wide ranging discussion of Rick Atkinson’s book The British are Coming, the first volume of a trilogy about the American Revolution. From the statistics about death rates of soldiers (one in ten), to how very long the conflict lasted (3,089 days—longer than WWII), participants covered topics such as the perception of the Hessian auxiliary troops, the Declaration of Independence, the Battle of White Plains—more than “just” the battle at Chatterton Hill. Nearly 40 people joined the discussion and viewed a short video of Atkinson revealing his experience examining newly-available British government documents in Windsor Castle—one of the first researchers to be given access.

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