American Enterprise Institute

The American Revolution in American History

The American Revolution Today Notes

  1. Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Dietrich Knicker­bocker.,” in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (New York, 1819), 1:83, 92.
  2. Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics (Alfred A. Knopf, 1968), 8–9.
  3. H. W. Brands, “Founders Chic,” The Atlantic, September 2003, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/09/founders-chic/302773/.
  4. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, “About,” www.gilderlehrman.org/about.
  5. 1776: A Musical Play, book by Peter Stone (Viking, 1970), 132.
  6. “Is Anybody There?,” music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, in 1776, 128.
  7. Obama White House, “Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of 8),” YouTube, November 2, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE.
  8. “Right Hand Man,” music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, in Hamilton: The Revolution, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter (Grand Central, 2016), 64.
  9. “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down),” music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, in Miranda and McCarter, Hamilton, 121.
  10. Mason L. Weems, A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington [. . .] (1800; J. B. Lippincott, 1918), 111.
  11. Henry James: Autobiography, ed. Frederick W. Dupee (Criterion Books, 1956), 152.
  12. David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (Oxford University Press, 2004), 22.
  13. Carrie Rebora Barratt et al., “Washington Crossing the Delaware”: Restoring an American Masterpiece (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011), 43–45.
  14. Edward Currier, The Political Text Book [. . .] (Holliston, MA, 1841), 22. The quotation appears without attribution, so it is not clear whether the line was really uttered.