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‘Now Wait for Last Year’: Historians, the American Colonies, and the Revolution

Most of them wander off into the past and get bogged down manufacturing alternative universes. (Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last Year, p. 143.) Nowadays most students of the American revolutionary era feel obliged to identify the conceptual framework of each new piece of research, before ever glancing at the argument or the evidence presented. This practice derives of course from the frequent reminders we receive about the progress of revisionism in early American history. Indeed, many authors use an historiographical survey as a standard