Did the World Turn Upside Down?
For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.
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1776
As in the 18th century the American war of independence sounded the tocsin for the European middle class, so in the 19th century the American Civil War sounded it for the European working class.
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The Soap Box
Letters
The Internet Speaks
Party Lines
Burn the Constitution Once Again
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Ken Burns on the American Revolution
Cultural Capital
Reading Materiel
Capitalism made the Second Slavery
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Pox Americana
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The People’s House Atop a Swamp
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Beyond a Boundary
Blood Sport on the South Lawn
Finland’s Ultranational Pastime
The International
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José Martí Knew the Monster
How Arizona Arms the Cartels
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Before 1776, There Was 1649
Pedal to the Metal
MENA
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Govan Mbeki and the Modest Revolution
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The Tumbrel
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The Dark Horse
Misery Index
