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The Age of Atlantic Revolution, circa 1750 through 1850, was a defining moment in western history as it shaped our understanding of rights, politics, trade, religion and nationalist values. Tying together the crises and conflicts that occurred in North America, Europe and Central America, Patrick Griffin, professor of history at Notre Dame, shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence, liberation and war, and how the transformation of empires into nations throughout the period shaped our modern world.

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About the Speaker

Patrick Griffin is the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and the Thomas Moore and Judith Livingston Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in American history from Northwestern University and joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2008, after teaching at the University of Virginia. His research explores the intersection of colonial American and early modern Irish and British history, focusing on Atlantic-wide themes and dynamics. He also examines the ways in which Ireland, Britain and America were linked—and differed—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is the author of several books, including The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Yale University Press, 2017); America’s Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012) American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (Hill & Wang, 2007); and The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World (Princeton University Press, 2001). Furthermore, he is the editor or co-editor of Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America (University of Virginia Press, 2017) and Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (University of Virginia Press, 2021). Professor Griffin has received several awards, including grants and fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Filson Historical Society. He was awarded the James A. Burns C.S.C. Graduate School Award for his numerous contributions to graduate studies in 2017, was made an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and was named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2021-2022 academic year.