The American Revolution was not fought on distant battlefields, but in private homes. British occupation produced an aggrieved American population, bound by shared domestic disorder and emotional distress. British officers usurped male authority to quarter themselves with families, patriot wives governed households in their husbands' absence, daughters flirted with officers, domestic servants disappeared with soldiers, and enslaved kin absconded to British lines in pursuit of freedom. Lauren Duval joins us to talk about her new book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence which captures daily life during the Revolution through the eyes and ears of those intimately experiencing it 

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