A Letter to Boston's "Radical Americans" From a “Loose and Disorderly” New Yorker, Autumn 1770 Midnight Notes on the multi-ethnic rebellion at the roots of the Boston Massacre on…
Staughton Lynd’s classic "Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism" (1968) Notes that were taken in graduate school.
The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America - Gerald Horne The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed…
Shays' rebellion, 1786 A short history of the "Shays' rebellion" in Massachusetts in the wake of the American Revolution, in which many poor farmers and war veterans…
Introduction to The Counter-Revolution of 1776 The introduction to Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.
"Counter-revolution of 1776": was U.S. Independence War a conservative revolt in favor of slavery? An interview with Gerald Horne, the author of a revisionist history of the American…
Manituana - Wu Ming Fantastically researched historical fiction about the Iroquois, a group of native American tribes who side with the British during the American…
The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620–1877 Most US historians assume that capitalism either “came in the first ships” or was…
Food rioters and the American Revolution - Barbara Clark Smith On more than thirty occasions between 1776 and 1779, American men and women gathered in crowds to…
A people's history of the American revolution - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn's critical history of the American Revolution against British rule and its impact on…
