How Does a Society Decide Its World Is No Longer Acceptable?

Before a Revolution Can Begin, the Existing World Must Stop Feeling Inevitable The American Revolution presents us with an obvious question: Why did the American colonists rebel against Great Britain?  We can answer that question by studying taxes, representation, imperial policy, the aftermath of the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre, the Tea Act, […]

The Enlightenment and Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution

Introduction In this interview: “But he’s insisting that both there’s nothing particularly radical in what he’s arguing, because anyone with common sense would know it, and also that ordinary people could probably rule on their own just fine.” Watch this section in the video below (00:34:08). To fully comprehend the American Revolution, we have to […]