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The American Revolution was an event of world-changing proportions. Never before in the modern era had a large population undertaken the act of breaking free from a monarchy and its aristocratic control, with the improbable ideal of a representative, egalitarian government. The thought processes involved in this epic undertaking swept away centuries of ingrained thinking about government, citizenship, and the nature of human society itself.
When we think of the American Revolution, we tend to pay attention to the iconic names-Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Franklin-the thinkers who articulated the vision of the new nation and became its standard bearers and leading lights. But it's easy to forget that the American Revolution was an insurgent movement requiring mass communication, mass mobilization, and a single-mindedness of purpose on the part of a huge number of colonists acting together, joined by a common cause.
