As Kevin Phillips argued in The Cousins’ Wars, America’s revolution and Civil War replayed Britain’s wars of Roundheads and Cavaliers. The rebels of 1776 and the federal authorities of 1861 ...

How modern Britain is still defined by the battle between Cavaliers (panache, pleasure and individuality) and Roundheads (modesty, discipline, equality, and state intervention). Show more In the ...

The historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who died in 2007 — and whose specialty was partisan hagiography, particularly on ...

A better key to understanding him is an older British political divide, which goes back to the civil war of the 1640s: Roundheads versus Cavaliers. British pundits have long played the game of ...

In this second episode, we hear about some of the bloodiest battles between Roundheads and Cavaliers, the leaders who came to the fore during these trying years and how the two sides eventually ...

Sellar and R. J. Yeatman cast the English civil war of the 17th century as a conflict between the “Wrong but Romantic” Cavaliers and the “Right but Revolting” Roundheads. The aftermath of ...