Disunion Among Ourselves tells the story of the deep political divisions that beset the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. So fractious were the founders’ political fights that they feared the War of Independence might end in disunion and civil war. Typically, accounts of the Revolution highlight the might of the British armed forces as the chief obstacle to achieving American independence. In fact, the greatest danger to the nascent Union—from the First Continental Congress in 1774 until the war’s end in 1783—was powerful regional chauvinism and government...
Disunion Among Ourselves tells the story of the deep political divisions that beset the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. So fracti...
