Prior to 1776, world
history was primarily written about kings and emperors. The American experiment
shook the world. Not only did the colonies break away from the biggest and most
powerful empire in history, they took the musings of the brightest thinkers of
the Enlightenment and implemented them. The Founding of the United States was
simultaneously an armed rebellion against tyranny and a revolution of
ideas—ideas that changed the course of world history.
