The American Revolution was not just a two-sided struggle between Great Britain and British-American colonists, but a conflict that engaged people of all sorts in the eastern half of North America - including Michigan. The war divided the American colonists themselves, even people of similar class and regional identities, and it also led many people of color—Indigenous people and free and enslaved Blacks—to take sides (and even to change sides at times). This presentation invites us to think about the Revolution as a complex continental event, to consider what it meant to different people at the time, and to ask what it still means to the American people now—and who gets to determine that.

Presented by: Gregory Nobles, Author, and Professor Emeritus of History, Georgia Tech


Sponsored by First State Bank

Recommended for Grades 9-12, College Students, Adults and Seniors.