The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

What caused the American Revolution?

Was it the issue of ‘No Taxation without Representation?’ Was it conflict and change in the social order of colonial and British society? Or, was the Revolution about differences in ideas about governance and the roles government should play in society?

In this episode of the Doing History: To the Revolution series, we explore one set of ideas about the origins of the American Revolution with Bernard Bailyn, a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048

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Complementary Episodes

• Episode 107: Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison’s Hand
• Episode 119: Steve Pincus, The Heart of the Declaration
• Episode 127: Caroline Winterer, American Enlightenments
• Episode 141: A Declaration in Draft
• Episode 151: Defining the American Revolution

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