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Author’s Talk—The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
January 27, 2026 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Historian Lauren Duval of the University of Oklahoma discusses her new book that vividly captures daily life during the American Revolution through the eyes and ears of those who intimately experienced it. Prior to the conflict, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British forces occupied every major city, invading the most private of spaces: the home. Drawing from the new book, this talk considers the dynamics of the household—how people moved within it, thought about it, and wielded power over it—revealing the ways in which occupation fundamentally upended the structures of colonial society and created opportunities for unprecedented economic and social mobility.
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