Historian Rick Atkinson says the Revolutionary War was also a fight against ‘future tyrannies’

Historian Rick Atkinson is returning to Kansas City on Tuesday, April 14 for a speaking event with the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum.

A former Star reporter, in recent years, Atkinson has focused his writing on the Revolutionary War, and has released two books in a trilogy about that era.

“The Fate of the Day,” which was published in 2025, focuses on the years of 1777 to 1780…

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