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• Who_Won_the_American_Revolutionary_War?

• But Why Is America Exceptional?

• Was Our Constitution Pro-Slavery?

• Thanksgiving

• Was the Revolution a Rich Man's War but a Poor Man's Fight?

• The Albany Plan and the Road to Revolution

• Lexington and Concord:  What the American Revolution's Military History Reveals about the Revolution

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Articles:

• The 14th Amendment and the Heart of the Constitution

• From the Outside In:  A Foreigner's Education in American History​

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Videos:​

• A revolution for or against change?

• Articles of Confederation

• The American Revolution and the Americanization debate

• The Bible in Revolutionary America: Americans' guide to human nature and human government

• Written constitutions

• American Bill of Rights

• The political ideas of common people

• Why did common folks join the American rebellion?

• Who won the Revolutionary War?

• What the Revolution's military history reveals about the Revoltion

• Was the Constitution pro-slavery?

• What is a constitution?  What is it good for?

• What is originalism?

• The 14th Amendment & the heart of the Constitution

• Do you live in a monarchy?

• Ben Franklin & the Albany Plan

• The American & French Revolutions

• What is American exceptionalism?

• Thanksgiving history

• The limits of the historian's expertise

• Revolution 250

• המהפיכה האמריקנית -- במה שונה היא מאחיותיה

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Book:

The Colonists' American Revolution:  Preserving English Liberty

A Dissenting Companion to the U.S. History Textbook

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Various aspects of the conventional narrative of the Revolution strain our credulity:

• Why would the winners of colonial society – the elites – lead a war to change the status quo?

• Why would the rich risk their wealth, lives, and social/political standing over mild tax hikes?

• If the rich acted out of economic self-interest, why did hundreds of thousands of lower-class colonists join them in their fight?

• If this was a tax revolt, why were Americans so angry about the Tea Act, which eliminated the tax on tea?

• If Americans opposed monarchy, why were they silent on it until after the war broke out?

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The conventional narrative of the Revolution paints the American response to British taxes and trade regulation as hysterical, paranoid, radical, and completely disproportional to the offense.   This book offers an explanation for American resistance and rebellion that makes the Revolutionists seem like normal Englishmen of their day – traditionalists, rather than radicals;  sober and conservative, rather than hysterics and paranoids;  and conventionally English, rather uniquely American.   The book presents the Revolution not as a tax revolt, a war of national liberation, or an effort to launch a new system of government, but as one in a series of British rebellions that aimed to preserve the old order against novel governmental reforms initiated in London.   This narrative of the Revolution makes the rebels seem more recognizable to us as normal people with understandable fears and reasonable complaints.