David Ramsay: The History of the American Revolution

  Format: Kindle Edition

  File Size: 814 KB

  Print Length: 368 pages

  Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

  Publisher: Old Classics (August 15, 2009)

  Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

  Language: English

  ASIN: B002LLNMW4

  Lending: Enabled



As one of the most important founding father in Revolutionary America, unlike George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Hamilton, James Madison and other founding fathers, David Ramsay, a physician who accepted well education in the 18th century, became a famous American historian by writing The History of the American Revolution and other masterpieces at that time.



Like Mercy Otis Warren who wrote The Rise, Progress and the Termination of the American Revolution, Ramsay wrote the history of the American Revolution according to his personal experiences and the documents he collected for his historical writings. In American historiography, George Bancroft was “the father of American revolution” due to his historical works highly praised the American founding fathers since the professionalization of American historical profession in the late 19th century. While in fact, David Ramsay, Mercy Otis Warren and other American historians who created their historical writing in revolutionary America contributed a lot to American historical profession.



It is an undeniable a fact that both Ramsay and Warren’s historical writings, especially their narratives of the American Revolution have been paid less attention until recently. David Ramsay’s The History of the American Revolution is published in 2009, which can not only help us to revisit the revolutionary and turbulent era the American founding fathers had experienced at that time, but also help us to re-understand the historical tradition of American historical writing at that time.

Ramsay was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, John Witherspoon and other American founding fathers at that time. His description of the American revolutionary events could greatly help you to go back to the revolutionary period and helps you to understand how the national consciousness was formed, by taking David Ramsay as a good example.

In this book, Ramsay gives you a very clear and understandable situation of the colonies prior to the Revolution; in addition, he provides a good account of what our founding fathers were doing during the war. If you are interested in colonial American history, the American Revolution or the historical writing of the American Revolution, you should take a look at it.