American Insurgents
Marlene Heck, Senior Lecturer in Art History and History
Topic 

If you've had your fill of the Founders, but remain curious about America's Revolutionary Era, T. H. Breen's American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People may be more to your taste. Breen focuses on the world of "ordinary" colonists who chaffed at Britain's ever growing interference in their lives long before the elites declared independence in 1776.