Ray Raphael

Founding Era Historian

Raphael has authored ten books on the Founding Era, including best-sellers A People’s History of the American Revolution and Founding Myths: Stories that Hide our Patriotic Past. Two books, First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord and Spirit of ’74: How the American Revolution Began, detail the unsung revolution in Massachusetts. Other books include:

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of a Nation (co-edited with Alfred F. Young and Gary B. Nash)

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Founding Fathers and Birth of Our Nation

Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Create a Chief Executive

Hamilton: Founding Father

Constitutional Myths

U.S. Constitution: Explained—Clause-by-Clause–For Every American Today.