The Contradictions of 1776 ^49.9%

The Nation - By Gerald Horne - 6/10/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 34.1% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 19% - Appeal to Emotion 18%

Joseph J. Ellis is one of the most celebrated historians in the nation. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and once the holder of an endowed chair at Mount Holyoke, he was hailed by The Washington Post as the “most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period and…probably the most influential as well.” His best-selling books on Thomas... more