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Peter Force
Coverage of Peter Force in the Nexus archive.
- It Wasn’t Just the Founders
The article argues that American independence relied not only on Founders like Washington, Jefferson, and Adams but also on thousands of everyday Americans who drove the pre-Revolution political movement. It highlights Peter Force, a 19th-century printer who collected and preserved documents from 1774–1776 to showcase the collective role of ordinary citizens in the Revolution.