Liberty!

Liberty!
Author: Lucille Recht Penner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-07-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Depicts the outbreak of the American Revolution at Lexington in 1775 through stories and illustrations.

Patriots in Petticoats

Patriots in Petticoats
Author: Shirley Raye Redmond
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0375823581

Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.

The American Revolution

The American Revolution
Author: Bruce Bliven, Jr.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-02-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0307778193

In the American colonies of the 1770s, people were fed up with British laws. Local farmers and tradesmen secretly formed a militia. In 1775, when the British marched into Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, the Americans were ready. From that first battle to the final showdown at Yorktown, the Americans fought against tremendous odds. The British army was bigger and better trained. Food and guns were scarce. But George Washington’s ragged army fought for–and won–the freedom and independence we cherish to this day.Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the tale of our country's fight for independence is brought to life in fast-moving, dramatic detail.

Meet George Washington

Meet George Washington
Author: Joan Heilbroner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2011-04-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0307786951

This valiant story of how young George Washington was drawn into his country's struggle for independence gives readers a vivid perspective on a crucial era in American history--and on the life of a revolutionary hero.

John Witherspoon's American Revolution

John Witherspoon's American Revolution
Author: Gideon Mailer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469628198

In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, he was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence. Although Witherspoon is often thought to be the chief conduit of moral sense philosophy in America, Mailer's comprehensive analysis of this founding father's writings demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs. Witherspoon's Presbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even superseded the civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the British Atlantic world. John Witherspoon's American Revolution examines the connection between patriot discourse and long-standing debates--already central to the 1707 Act of Union--about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy, and political unionism. In Witherspoon's mind, Americans became different from other British subjects because more of them had been awakened to the sin they shared with all people. Paradoxically, acute consciousness of their moral depravity legitimized their move to independence by making it a concerted moral action urged by the Holy Spirit. Mailer's exploration of Witherspoon's thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in his circle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
Author: Nancy Wilson Ross
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1956
Genre:
ISBN: 9780780797918

A biography of the peasant girl who led the French army to victory against the English and paved the way for the coronation of King Charles VII.

The Swamp Fox of the Revolution

The Swamp Fox of the Revolution
Author: Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2008
Genre: Generals
ISBN: 1402757034

A biography of Francis Marion, the American general who organized a guerrilla band to fight the British in South Carolina during the Revolution.

Meet Robert E Lee

Meet Robert E Lee
Author: George W.S. Trow
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0307800237

Meet ROBERT E. LEE is the story of a great American leader forced to make a terrible decision. Robert E. Lee the Virginian, son of a Revolutionary hero, served in the U.S. Army as America moved towards Civil War. Loving his country, he hated to see the Union split, but he could not fight against the South. His agonizing decision, his brilliant military leadership, and the fine example he set when the battle was done, are all recounted in this thoroughly researched and richly illustrated book.

Gettysburg

Gettysburg
Author: MacKinlay Kantor
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 125
Release: 1952
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1628156465

A riveting account of the most fascinating battle of the Civil War. MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville The Civil War was in its third year. When troops entered Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the South seemed to be winning. But Gettysburg was a turning point. From July 1 to July 3, 1863, the Confederacy and the Union engaged in a bitter, bloody fight. The author takes the reader through the events of that fateful confrontation and shows us how "through strategy, determination, and sheer blind luck, the Union won the battle." Inspired by the valor of the many thousands of soldiers who died there, President Lincoln visited Gettysburg to give a brief but moving tribute. His Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history.

Before Columbus

Before Columbus
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07
Genre: America
ISBN: 9780375823077

Five hundred years before Columbus, a young Viking named Leif Eriksson crossed the Atlantic and became the first-known European to set foot in North America. The tale of the crossing has been passed down for 1000 years. Now Elizabeth Cody Kimmel retells it to a new audience, painting a vivid picture of what Eriksson might have experienced. Includes reproductions of maps, illustrations, and Viking artifacts.