Rebecca Brannon

About Me

 
 

historian of the american revolution

My academic research focuses on eighteenth-century American history and is concerned with broad questions about the American Revolution and its consequences.  I have a ‘strange predilection’ for history’s underdogs. I write about American Loyalists who lost, and were then forgotten in their own country despite making it a stronger nation. I write about people dealing with aging, even when it made them and those around them uncomfortable. Join me in considering questions often forgotten—yet revealing.

“I might be thought to have outlived myself.”
— James Madison
 
 
 
 

Specialties

American Revolution

 
 
 
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