Robert Palmer Woloch

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Isser Woloch, "Robert R. Palmer," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 148, no. 3 (2004), Questia. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.

In the beginning of the article Woloch talks about Robert Palmers life, and how credible he was. Robert palmer was a professor of history at Yale and a guest scholar at an institute in Princeton. Woloch describes Palmers perspective in detail about, how the western world argues that the American, French, Polish and potentially the British, Ireland and Holland were all manifested from similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Palmer however stays fair minded and unbiased throughout this whole article when discussing his experiences from the old to the new world and I think that this article will help me understand

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