Patriots Before Revolution with Amy Watson
On this special episode of Historians & Their Histories, guest host Megan Kate Nelson sits down with Amy Watson, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. They discuss Prof. Watson's new book Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763, available now in hardcover and paperback. They discuss what it meant to be a patriot in the eighteenth century and the long history of the American Revolution.
Prof. Watson is a recipient of the long-term fellowship sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Host:
Megan Kate Nelson, Ph.D. is a historian and writer, an MHS Fellow, and a member of the Boston Environmental History Seminar steering committee. She is the author of four books, including Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022; winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Historical Non-Fiction) and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in History).
Episode Special Guest:
Amy Watson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her first book, Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763, was published by Yale University Press in 2025.
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