--Stamp Act gives alternative interpretation; Minutemen focuses on how people lived at the time --Address the use of sources as well as their origin: Stamp Act reliance on journals/correspondence and writing as opposed to Minutemen use of financial records, etc. to create a holistic view. -Morgan paints a better image of the revolution-especially through his descriptions of the mobs and effigies-but Gross gives a better idea of the impact it had on the people of the time period by offering up information about conscriptions and draftees in Concord.