Concentration in the American Revolution (24 semester hours)

APUS offers one of the nation’s only graduate concentrations on the American Revolution. Students study the philosophies, personalities, strategies, leadership, and other factors that led to, influenced, and resulted from the United States of America’s foundation and permanent break from Great Britain. As a major event in the larger sweep of the Enlightenment, the following aspects of the American Revolution are analyzed: principles of colonialism, monarchy, democracy, republic, and nation-building; military leadership, strategies and individual soldiers on each side; international diplomacy; economics; and American culture.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:

• Dissect and critique the American Revolution from its antecedents to its legacy including events leading to the revolt, Declaration of Independence, strategy and tactics, campaigns, and the aftermath of war on the new nation.
• Analyze the American Revolution in reference to the operational contributions of American and British military leadership using selected land battles as examples of the strategies and tactics involved.
• Evaluate an early and pivotal campaign in the American Revolution by critiquing the strategy, tactics, and results of campaign on the subsequent course of the Revolution and post-war Anglo-American relations.
• Explain the perspective of the American Revolution from the British viewpoint in relation to colonial policies, diplomacy, military leadership, and other influences in Great Britain during and after the war.
• Assess and critique the conclusive military strategy of the American Revolution and why the strategy was distinctive from other military theatres of operation.

HIST500 Historical Research Methods

MILH510 Studies in US Military History

HIST501 Historiography

MILH511 Great Military Philosophers

HIST553 History of Colonial America

MILH637 Seven Years War

HIST551 American Revolution in Context

MILH531 Strategy, Tactics & Leadership of the American Revolution

MILH532 British Perspective of the American Revolution

MILH536 American Revolution

HIST657 Antebellum America: Prelude to the Civil War

HIST691 Writing a Thesis Proposal

MILH699 Military History Capstone

They say this degree, and other’s like it, are 36 graduate level credits, but I count 39.