My big American history thought is that Charles Beard was more right than people are comfortable with and a lot of the new emphasis on the self-interest of the revolutionaries is the return of the repressed.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Perhaps, but my admittedly hazy recollection is that Forrest McDonald did a pretty effective demolition job on Beard's use of historical evidence.
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Replying to @hschrader
I had a prof who did a seminar on this and he pretty convincingly showed (at least to my satisfaction) that McDonald's critique doesn't do the job.
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