USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -1 of a 2 volume work. David Ramsay’s History of the American Revolution appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American national history written by an American revolutionary and printed in America.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mercy Otis Warren was one of the few women who broke the mold during a time when women were expected not to participate in political matters. She worked as a poet, political playwright, and pamphleteer to become the leading female philosopher of the Revolution and new nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Politics strained the friendship between the Warrens and the Adams and ruined James Warren’s political career. At that point, Warren turned to writing history. She published her masterwork, the three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, in 1805.

Detailed explanation-4: -An advocate of colonial resistance to British parliamentary acts in the American Revolution, Warren served as the Continental Army’s Paymaster-General during the Revolutionary War before pursuing a political career.