Author: Robert G. Parkinson

Robert G. Parkinson is Professor of History at Binghamton University and the author of four books on the American Revolution, including The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution and Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier. His latest book, published with W.W. Norton in 2026, is Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence, the first book on the Declaration's twenty-seven grievances.

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The Swap Not Heard ’Round the World: Ordering the Declaration’s Grievances

After two hundred and fifty years, there couldn’t possibly be any more stories hiding away in the Declaration of Independence, right? The shelves groan with the collective weight of all the books written about it, not to mention the untold gallons of ink expended by social commentators, historians, political scientists, cultural critics, activists, radicals, and […]

by Robert G. Parkinson