{"id":1051877,"date":"2026-06-26T18:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1051877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:32:19","slug":"america-at-250-a-view-from-britain-with-the-rest-is-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1051877\/","title":{"rendered":"America at 250: A View from Britain, with \u201cThe Rest Is History\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paywall\">Listen and subscribe: <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/launch?showId=the-new-yorker-radio-hour&amp;platform=apple\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/pod.link\/launch?showId=the-new-yorker-radio-hour&amp;platform=apple&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/launch?showId=the-new-yorker-radio-hour&amp;platform=apple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> | <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/launch?showId=the-new-yorker-radio-hour&amp;platform=spotify\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/pod.link\/launch?showId=the-new-yorker-radio-hour&amp;platform=spotify&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/launch?showId=the-new-yorker-radio-hour&amp;platform=spotify\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> | <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/the-new-yorker-radio-hour\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/pod.link\/the-new-yorker-radio-hour&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/the-new-yorker-radio-hour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wherever You Listen<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/newsletter\/daily\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a> for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap body dropcap has-dropcap__lead-standard-heading paywall\">Americans tend to see the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War as milestones in world history that inaugurated the era of modern democracy. But the British, unsurprisingly, see these events quite differently. David Remnick talks with Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland, the historians who host the popular podcast \u201cThe Rest Is History.\u201d Growing up in Britain, Sandbrook explains, the Revolution seemed like \u201ca parade of quite boring men talking very earnestly about liberty, [with] battles that involved twenty people in a field somewhere.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. It\u2019s not Waterloo!\u201d The King was \u201cannoyed\u201d to lose the thirteen colonies to the new nation, but, for his government, \u201cit could have been a lot worse.\u201d Sandbrook and Holland discuss historical events that overshadow the American Revolution in the British mind, the 1619 Project and the subject of slavery, the \u201ccolossally consequential\u201d Presidency of Donald Trump, and the fate of the British monarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[93165,748,393,4884,2348,38484,1144,712,39124,1757,16,15,14928,1764],"class_list":["post-1051877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-american-revolution","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-history","tag-monarchy","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-slavery","tag-trump","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-u-k","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116817844589419056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}