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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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About the Speaker:

Lauren Duval is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches courses on colonial North America and the Atlantic World, the American Revolution and early American women’s and gender history. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Public Library, the David Library of the American Revolution and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr. Duval earned her Ph.D. from American University in Washington, D.C. In 2018, her article “Mastering Charleston: Property and Patriarchy in British-Occupied Charleston, 1780-82” published in the William and Mary Quarterly received the journal’s annual Richard L. Morton Award and the Coordinating Council for Women in History’s Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize. She also has published chapters in Women Waging War in the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2022) as well as the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Revolution.