Benedict Arnold and making sense of treason

Benedict Arnold and making sense of treason

In the midst of all the memorization associated with history classes back in high school, learning about Benedict Arnold seemed easy. He was the first major American traitor. Granted, I didn’t know exactly how he betrayed the country, nor did I understand why. (I’m still not fully certain about the “why.”) Now, many years later, when I find history to be a magical collection of stories rather than a memory exercise, I learn Arnold may have been…