How did a group of largely independent colonies, all created via separate charters, coalesce into the “United States of America”? Was it really about taxation without representation? What rights did the mother country, England, claim and why were the American colonies so upset? Finally, how radical was American Revolution?
Dr. Matthew Warshauer is a professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and served for six years at the co-chair of the Connecticut Civil War Commemoration Commission, which was responsible for the state’s many activities remembering the nation’s greatest trial. Warshauer is a widely recognized and sought after lecturer in the field of American political and constitutional history, and is the author of four books. Two on Andrew Jackson and two on Connecticut and the Civil War.