In an approximately five page response paper (12 pt, Times New Roman Font, Standard Margins, Chicago Manual Style Citations), reflect on how the authors in Revolutionary Founders are doing history “from the bottom up.” You may want to consider some of the following questions in your response:
What are the main features of the revolutionary era (for our purposes we’ll say 1763-1804) when you view it through the lens of ordinary people?
How and where does change come from according to the social histories that you read this week?
What are some of the challenges or limitations to understanding history from this perspective (you may want to pay particular attention to source material here)? How do historians confront those limitations?
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