Ray Raphael

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Ray Raphael is a historian of the American Revolution. His primary focus is on "the little people" instead of renowned heroes like Samuel Adams and George Washington, although Gregor Milnes questions the novelty of this approach[1]. In his volume The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord (2002), for example, Raphael details how Massachusetts was already in widespread revolt in 1775, with only the garrisoned city of Boston remaining responsive to George III's command, and that the British march on Lexington and Concord was the Crown's attempt to take back the colony.

One of his books, Cash Crop: An American Dream? (1985), is about the American marijuana-growing industry.

In addition to his twenty volumes of history, Raphael is co-author, with Neil Rapheal, of Comic Cops, of a juvenile mystery.