Here by way of thistleingrey. This is super-interesting and thoughtful. I had the world's worst AP US History class (I went to a...dubious private school in South Korea, and as luck of the draw would have it, my teacher was terrible) so even if I remembered stuff from HS it's all very blurry. I love the musical musically, but not only do I not know much about the historicity, I also spent the other half of my childhood in Texas so all the 13 Colonies stuff is kind of opaque to me. (Yeah, I had Texas History in 7th grade. Brilliant teacher, but...somewhat useless topic?) Thanks for giving me things to think about.