
In Defense of the American Revolution
1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. In spite of them, it soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.
Tom Cutterham (@tomcutterham) is Lecturer in US History at the University of Birmingham in the UK. His latest book is Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Princeton, 2017).
1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. In spite of them, it soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.