Thaddeus Russell
American cultural historian and author, best known for A Renegade History of the United States; scholar of marginalized groups, counterculture, and sexuality, and a university professor and public commentator.
Books
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1. A Renegade History Of The United States
How a Dissenting Minority Created the American Nation
A provocative revisionist history that argues American liberty and social progress were driven less by elite reformers than by marginal, defiant subcultures—criminals, sexual nonconformists, bohemians, escaped slaves, and other “renegades”—whose pursuit of pleasure, autonomy, and resistance to authority gradually expanded freedoms and reshaped mainstream values. The narrative reframes key moments and figures to show how transgression, vice, and informal networks undermined entrenched power and produced enduring cultural and political change.
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