This roundtable brings together an American historian and four Brazilian scholars to examine how the American Revolution has been interpreted, appropriated, and debated within Brazilian historiography and public culture. The session will be moderated by Dr. Denver Brunsman (George Washington University), a specialist in the history of the American Revolution, who will lead a structured conversation with Dr. Daniel Gomes de Carvalho (Universidade de São Paulo), Dr. Marcos Sorrilha Pinheiro (Universidade Estadual Paulista), Mariana de Oliveira Ferraz Paulino (FESPSP – São Paulo Foundation School of Sociology and Politics; Universidade de São Paulo), and Lucas da Costa Mohallem (Cornell University). All four Brazilian historians conduct research on themes related to Brazilian Independence, the American Revolution, and their connections within the broader Atlantic world.

The session will be conducted entirely in a dialogical format. Rather than delivering individual papers, participants will respond to questions posed by the moderator and engage one another in sustained discussion. The conversation will then be opened to the audience, ensuring substantial time for collective debate and exchange.

The discussion will explore several interrelated questions. What place does the independence of the United States occupy in Brazilian historiography? How has it been interpreted in relation to Brazil’s own processes of political transformation and independence? To what extent has the American Revolution functioned as a comparative reference, a model, or a point of contrast in Brazilian historical writing?

The roundtable will also address how the American Revolution appears in Brazilian public debate and in school textbooks. How is U.S. independence presented in educational materials? What narratives predominate, and how have they changed over time? Are recent historiographical developments in the United States reflected in Brazilian academic and pedagogical contexts?

By placing Brazilian scholarship in dialogue with an American specialist, the session seeks to foster a transnational exchange about historiographical traditions, methodological approaches, and the circulation of revolutionary ideas. Rather than treating the American Revolution as a self-contained national event, the discussion emphasizes its place within broader Atlantic and global frameworks, highlighting both distances and convergences between Brazilian and U.S. historiographical perspectives. The goal is to promote sustained dialogue across academic cultures and to reconsider how revolutionary histories are written, taught, and publicly mobilized.