The American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American identity is so fluid and not based on any universally shared heritage, we have had to continually return to our nation's founding to understand who we are.
Chapter 1. RHETORIC and REALITY in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Chapter 2. The LEGACY of ROME in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Chapter 3. CONSPIRACY and the PARANOID STYLE: CAUSALITY and DECEIT in the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 4. INTERESTS and DISINTERESTEDNESS in the MAKING of the CONSTITUTION
Chapter 5. The ORIGINS of AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM
Chapter 6. The MAKING of AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Chapter 7. The RADICALISM of THOMAS JEFFERSON and THOMAS PAINE CONSIDERED
Chapter 8. MONARCHISM and REPUBLICANISM in EARLY AMERICA
Chapter 9. ILLUSIONS of POWER in the AWKWARD ERA of FEDERALISM
Chapter 10. The AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT
Chapter 11. A HISTORY of RIGHTS in EARLY AMERICA