How exactly would one define a revolution? According to Dictionary.com, a revolution is a sudden or momentous change in a situation. So, therefore, it is easy for most to place the American Revolution into the distinction of actually being a revolution. This is a statement that historian Howard Zinn would rebuke and laugh at. Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States: 1492- Present, offers plenty of evidence of why the …showed first 75 words of 1272 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1272 total…reading Zinn. Not only did the structure of government remain the same, yet the social classes and the demand for economic profits also remained the same. Therefore, Zinn’s title for his section on the American Revolution, “Tyranny is Tyranny,” seems to make a lot more sense. America traded high-income white males for high-income white males. Thus, according to Howard Zinn, there is no way that the American Revolution could be characterized as a revolution.