Ray Raphael

Ray Raphael’s seventeen books include A People’s History of the American Revolution, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord, Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past, and The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began (co-authored with Marie Raphael), all published by The New Press. He has taught at a one-room public high school, Humboldt State University, and College of the Redwoods and is currently a senior research fellow at Humboldt State University and associate editor of Journal of the American Revolution. He lives in Northern California, where he hikes and kayaks.

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The Washington Book Review

The Washington Book Review reviews Ray Raphael and Marie Raphael's "must read" book

Journal of the American Revolution

Journal of the American Revolution reviews The Spirit of 74

Open Letters Monthly

Open Letters Monthly calls The Spirit of 74 a "lively and thoroughly-researched" study of the early days of the American Revolution.

Kirkus

Kirkus calls The Spirit of 74 "a well-conceived work of popular history that fills a gap in the chronology of the American Revolution."

Books by Ray Raphael

Constitutional Myths
What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right

Ray Raphael

The First American Revolution
Before Lexington and Concord

Ray Raphael

Founders
The People Who Brought You a Nation

Ray Raphael

Founding Myths
Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

Ray Raphael

A People’s History of the American Revolution
How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

Ray Raphael

The Spirit of 74
How the American Revolution Began

Ray Raphael, Marie Raphael