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 March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people.
Staughton Lynd’s classic "Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism" (1968)
Submitted by Marx-lover on Oct 1 2018 21:47
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
Submitted by Tyrion on Jan 27 2015 03:17
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then residing in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with London.
Shays' rebellion, 1786
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 26 2014 14:26
A short history of the "Shays' rebellion" in Massachusetts in the wake of the American Revolution, in which many poor farmers and war veterans attempt to shut down the state's courts in protest at the debt burden on veterans and high taxes on farmers.
Introduction to The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 4 2014 23:22
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?
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 4 2014 22:13
An interview with Gerald Horne, the author of a revisionist history of the American War of Independence.
Manituana - Wu Ming
Fantastically researched historical fiction about the Iroquois, a group of native American tribes who side with the British during the American war in independence.
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 the inevitable result of the expansion of the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum US, most historians of the US Civil War have privileged autonomous political and ideological factors, ignoring the deep social roots of the conflict. This book applies theoretical insights derived from the debates on the transition to capitalism in Europe to the historical literature on the US to produce a new analysis of the origins of capitalism in the US, and the social roots of the Civil War.
Food rioters and the American Revolution - Barbara Clark Smith
Submitted by mintru on Jan 24 2012 19:57
On more than thirty occasions between 1776 and 1779, American men and women gathered in crowds to confront hoarding merchants, intimidate "unreasonable" storekeepers, and seize scarce commodities ranging from sugar to tea to bread. A good-sized minority of the crowds we know about consisted largely of women; a few others may have included men and women alike. Each crowd voiced specific local grievances, but it is clear that their participants sometimes knew of actions elsewhere and viewed each episode as part of a wider drama.
A people's history of the American revolution - Howard Zinn
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 21 2011 15:43
Howard Zinn's critical history of the American Revolution against British rule and its impact on ordinary people.
