LAD/Blog #4: "Revolution Article"

5 things I learned from the article: "Rethinking the Revolution"
1.) Today, many see the War of Independence in America as a less demanding/painful/costly/vital war than the Civil War.
2.) Founding Fathers were among the first to recognize that history could be used to manipulate how the past would be remembered.
3.) Supposedly, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin conducted all the policy negotiations, legislatures, and war.
4.) For the Civil War, the most remembered people were military men, whereas in the American Revolution, those most remembered were civilian leaders.
5.) Suffering during the Revolutionary War and WWI was downplayed, because of the much greater amounts of lives lost to WWII and the Civil War.