Time and the American Revolution

Park Event · Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site · Oct 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM–2:00 PM

Dr. Helena Yoo-Roth, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, explores themes from her forthcoming book, American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution. In it, she reframes the origins of the American Revolution by illustrating how American colonists and imperial officials came to inhabit different temporal worlds.

The emergence of a heightened awareness of the delays and consequences of transatlantic communications—shaped political action, sharpened Americans' critiques of empire, and ultimately propelled the thirteen colonies to independence.

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