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Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Describes the life and times of the well-known hero of the American Revolution, Paul Revere, a patriot and silversmith whose midnight ride was made famous in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
43) Uncle Sam
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes "Uncle Sam" Wilson, the New York meat-packer who supplied the troops with meat during the War of 1812, and how he gave rise to the national symbol popular with illustrators.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Independence and eventual victory and liberty, recounted by Benson Bobrick, lauded by the New York Times as "perhaps the most interesting historian writing in America today." Overwhelmed with debt following its victory in the French and Indian Wars, England began imposing harsh new tariffs and taxes on its colonists...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
On June 17, 1775, the entire dynamic of the newborn American Revolution was changed. If the Battle of Lexington and Concord was, in the immortal words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the "shot heard round the world," Bunker Hill was the volley that rocked Britain's Parliament and the ministry of King George III to its core. The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first hostile engagement of the Revolution between two organized armies, and the first time that a...
47) Darkest hours
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Describes events and battles during the early years of the Revolutionary War, including campaigns at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Trenton, and activities at the Continental Congress.
Series
Publisher
Ten-Strike Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"It's the dead of night in Boston Harbor and our intrepid reporters, Sarah and James, spot colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians sneaking aboard British ships and dumping tons of tea overboard. This act of defiance against the British authority is a defining moment of the American Revolution. It's then on to Lexington and Concord, where citizens calling themselves "Minutemen" take up arms against the powerful, experienced British army of "redcoats."...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the beginning of the Revolutionary War, discussing the causes and leaders of the rebellion, and how the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord began America's long road to independence.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military and financial assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against Great Britain"--
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"I pity Mr. Sam Adams," his cousin John Adams wrote to his wife, "for he was born a Rebel." At virtually every juncture of the American Revolution, from the Boston Massacre and Tea Party to Lexington and Concord and the ratification of the Constitution, Samuel Adams played a forceful role. With his fiery rhetoric and religious fervor, he was in many respects the moral conscience of the new nation. "The love of liberty," he thundered, "is interwoven...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Written in the authoritative and narrative-driven style that has made his books critical and commercial successes, John Ferling's Whirlwind will become the definitive history of the American Revolution for our time. This master historian illuminates the years 1763 to 1783--from the end of the French and Indian War that left England triumphant in North America to the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the final departure of British troops from New...