Ep. 8: H.W. Brands on the Patriots and the Loyalists
Biography
H.W, Brands is the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his doctorate in history. He is the author of thirty books, including two which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize: The First American and Traitor to His Class. His latest book, released November 9, is Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution.
Times
01:51- Introduction
07:36 - The sidelining of the Loyalists in American history and memory
12:53 - Individual decisions in the context of the Revolutionary War
18:42 - The Indian population…
The skinny
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