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Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"John Hancock and Samuel Adams were an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hancock was young and dashing. Adams was old and stodgy. But working together, they rallied the people of Boston against the unfair policies of Great Britain and inspired American resistance. And to King George, they became a royal pain. When the British army began marching toward Lexington and Concord, sending Hancock and Adams fleeing into the woods, the two men couldn't help...
63) Unfriendly to liberty: loyalist networks and the coming of the American Revolution in New York City
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book examines political mobilization and the origins of loyalism in Manhattan in the decade or so prior to the American Revolution. It focuses on the emergence of the DeLancey faction in New York City politics, arguing that prerevolutionary partisanship and associationism influenced New Yorkers' allegiances during the American Revolution"--
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five ships against hundreds-the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen... America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution-or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Discover the history of the American Revolution. On April 19, 1775, the American Minutemen clashed with British troops in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. These battles marked the beginning of the American Revolution. After five years of planning and fighting, the British surrendered The History of: A Biography Series for New Readersand the United States was finally free. This colorfully illustrated story takes kids on a journey through the events...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Historian Kyle Ward, the acclaimed co-author of History Lessons, offers another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we think about, write about, and teach our own history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks of different eras, History in the Making provides new perspectives on familiar historical events, and sheds light on the ways they have been represented over generations.
Covering subjects that span two hundred years,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world. Throughout history, individual battles have inspired the birth of nations, the devastation of cultures and the triumph of revolutions. Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle 'important'? Celebrated veteran and military expert Michael Lee Lanning...
Publisher
ColdWater Media
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Tired of getting history from a dusty old book? In a fast fun style all his own, Dave Stotts, drives through Italy, Spain, England and Holland tracking down the story of Christopher Columbus, and America's Pilgrims. Then it's on to Boston, Lexington and Concord to see the historic beginnings of the Revolutionary War. As always, Dave includes the Christian influences that have shaped history."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Appalachian Mountain Club Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Getting the whole family outside and active is easy if parents know where to go and how to travel there. This new, must-have guide from the Appalachian Mountain Club features 100 outdoor destinations where families can enjoy successful day trips and outings, whether hiking, biking, paddling, playing, swimming, or simply running around. Written by parents and tested by kids, Outdoors with Kids Boston offers information about driving directions, parking...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Every year, more than a million people visit Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, where the shot heard 'round the world was fired and the War of Independence began--and nearly three and a half million visit Yorktown National Battlefield, where it was won. In The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook, Frances H. Kennedy provides nearly 150 entries arranged in order of their chronological significance that allow readers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive of the American Revolution, from the early settlement of the continent, through the crises of the 1760's and 1770's, to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and finally to the election of 1800. Also examines the role played by African Americans and Native Americans.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775--Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire,' the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The first book in Don Brown's Actual Times series brings the start of the American Revolution to life.
A 26-year-old King George II found himself in financial turmoil after crushing the French, Austrians, and Spanish in battle. Luckily money was no object since he could easily get it back by raising taxes on his American colonies...but what King George didn't realize was the colonies were beginning to have a mind of their own and had started to set...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history-yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man...