university of massachusetts and the university of wisconsin. in addition to being a greatly acclaimed scholar, she is also a devoted teacher of generation of undergraduates, regularly offering a survey course in american history. her books have focused on the power of ideas and the shaping of early america. they ve also recovered the human complexity of a founding experience bring important nuance to conventional understandings. in her first book, from resistance to revolution, colonial radicals and development of american opposition to britain in 1972, she sought to identify the causes of the transformation of generalized discontents into revolutionary commitment in the years leading up to the war or independence. in the old revolutionaries, political lies in the age of samuel adams in 1880 she surveyed several the men in the revolutionary generation, the generation of 1776, and distinguished their concerns and their faith from a later generation which shaped the constitut