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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world," but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of '74 fills in this gap in our nation's founding narrative, showing how in these mislaid months, step by step, real people made a revolution.
After the Tea Party, Parliament not only shut down a port but also revoked the sacred Massachusetts charter. Completely...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with "the shot heard 'round the world." But the people started taking action earlier than many think. The First American Revolution uses the wide-angle lens of a people's historian to tell a surprising new story of America's revolutionary struggle.
In the years before the battle of Lexington and Concord, local people-men and women of common means but of uncommon courage-overturned...