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A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

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Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People’s History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael’s magisterial A People’s History of the American Revolution was once hailed by Fresh Air as “relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental.” With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a big selection of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has served as a revelation to thousands of Americans.

A People’s History of the American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal letters, and other Revolutionary-era treasures, weaving a thrilling, “you might be there” narrative—“a tapestry that uses individual experiences to illustrate the bigger stories” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Within the trademark style of Howard Zinn, Raphael shifts the point of interest away from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the boys and boys who did the fighting.

This “remarkable standpoint on a familiar a part of American history” (Kirkus) helps us appreciate more fully the fantastic diversity of the American Revolution by helping us see it through different sets of eyes.
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