# Event Details - **Event Name**: Landmark Lecture: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: In this program, audiences are invited to rediscover the Revolution as a world war that unleashed chaos, opportunity, and transformation.About this EventWhen we think of the American Revolution, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. But this version of the story is only half the truth—and perhaps not even the most interesting half. In this riveting program, historian and author Richard Bell invites audiences to rediscover the Revolution as a world war that unleashed chaos, opportunity, and transformation across six continents. From the sugar fields of the Caribbean to the court of the King of Mysore, from refugee camps on the Canadian frontier to political uprisings in Sierra Leone and Peru, the war that gave birth to the United States was never simply America’s own. It was a seismic global event that redrew maps, toppled hierarchies, catalyzed migration, and accelerated new movements for liberty—and for empire.In this program, Bell traces the far-flung reverberations of the war through the lives of the people it displaced, empowered, or destroyed. Participants will encounter a Native matriarch struggling to preserve a transatlantic military alliance, a Prussian officer reinventing himself in a foreign army, and a Boston schoolteacher shipwrecked thousands of miles from home. Along the way, the Bell explores how the Revolution stirred a transoceanic refugee crisis, ignited antislavery activism, and inspired uprisings from Ireland to India. The program offers a bold new framework for understanding the Revolutionary War not as a tidy founding moment but as a sprawling, high-stakes struggle fought on land and sea, shaped by commerce, diplomacy, propaganda, and contingency. This is the American Revolution as you’ve never seen it before: complex, global, and astonishingly relevant to the modern world.About the author: Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. His new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, was published by Penguin in November 2025. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/landmark-lecture-the-american-revolution-and-the-fate-of-the-world/100001980587746265 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Tudor Place - **lat**: 38.9114894 - **long**: -77.0629465 - **full address**: Tudor Place, 1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Landmark Lecture: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/33ef2ba14ee5ce6e2b7156846a67223e56b74f34a6b3daa7322697a25ad0edf0-rimg-w1200-h600-dc17161d-gmir.jpg?v=1768753977 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Landmark Lecture: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World being held? - **A:** Landmark Lecture: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World takes place on Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Tudor Place, 1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Landmark Lecture: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World? - **A:** Landmark Lecture: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World is organized by Tudor Place. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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