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Now It's History

Was the American Revolution a grand mistake?

A provocative question on the 250th birthday of the U.S.

Richard Galant
Jul 02, 2026
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Was it all “a grand mistake?’

That’s the thesis of The American Revolution: A Grand Mistake, a 2010 book by Leland G. Stauber, a former associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

The 292-page book makes a somewhat halting case that the 13 colonies’ Declaration of Independence from Britain got the United States l…

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