Bibliography Quote by Bernard Bailyn

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

— June Callwood

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its about Washington…

— David McCullough

“By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

“In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution mostly in…

— Gary B. Nash

“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough…

— Howard Zinn

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

— Terry Pratchett

“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the…

— Howard Zinn

On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever…

— Thomas Jefferson

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. THOMAS PAINE, THE AMERICAN CRISIS, 1776”

— Melanie Dobson