The American Revolution, with David Hackett Fischer & Rick Atkinson

Pulitzer Prize winning authors David Hackett Fischer and Rick Atkinson discuss the history of the American Revolution. The authors glean lessons from early American history that can be applied to more current conflicts.

DAVID HACKETT FISCHER, PhD, is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he has served on the faculty for more than 50 years. Winner of the 2015 Pritzker Literature Award, Fischer is best known for his writings on the American Revolution, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing. Over the course of a long and distinguished career as an educator, Fischer has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, The University of Oxford, the University of Washington, and several institutions in New Zealand, and has been honored with awards including the 1990 Carnegie Prize as Massachusetts Professor of the Year and the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

RICK ATKINSON is the bestselling author of six works of narrative military history, including The Guns at Last Light, The Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. He was a reporter, foreign correspondent, war correspondent, and senior editor at The Washington Post for more than twenty years. Atkinson's many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and history, the George Polk Award, and the 2010 Pritzker Literature Award. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he is at work on a new trilogy with a focus on the American Revolution.