Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.

Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

A stimulating and profound analysis of the factors which brought a nation into war with itself.

Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

The observations made by J. Franklin Jameson in his pathbreaking study initiated a challenging and enormously productive scholarly debate regarding the nature of the Revolutionary era in American history. For more than six decades questions involving the social implications of the struggle for independence have continued to intrigue historians, and their explorations of the Revolutionary experience from the perspective Jameson suggested have produced a rich and varied literature. The essays featured in this volume demonstrate the ongoing vitality and importance of contemporary scholarship on the social character of the American Revolution.