Henry Stewart History on MSN

The Seven Years’ War and the birth of a global power structure

Spanning Europe, North America, India, and the world’s oceans, the Seven Years’ War marked the first truly global conflict, ...
insider.si.edu

Cultures in conflict : the Seven Years' War in North America / edited by Warren R. Hofstra

Introduction : old forts, new perspectives--thoughts on the Seven Years' War and its significance / Fred Anderson -- British culture and the changing character of the mid-eighteenth-century British ...
Artnet

French Love Letters, Sealed for 265 Years, Are Opened—and Read—for the First Time

For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...
CNN

Was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in India? A growing number of historians think so

Final Jeopardy category: the American Revolutionary War. The answer is: The last battle of America’s war of independence was fought on this continent. Cue the familiar music, and write down your ...
The Boston Globe

Native Americans helped spark the Revolution

Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” As we approach the 250th anniversary of the ...