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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
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
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
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Author | : Clara Ingram Judson |
Publisher | : Young Voyageur |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0760352259 |
This sharply written and richly illustrated biography of Abraham Lincoln cover's the man's life, from his youth in Kentucky, through his political career, and his tragic death.
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.
Representation in the American Revolution
Author | : Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
From one of America's most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon S. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is undiminished. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a new preface, Representation in the American Revolution examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Written immediately after the completion of Wood's Bancroft Award-winning The Creation of the American Republic, this book elaborates on issues also explored in that landmark work. The subject is one that lies at the heart of any discussion of democracy. Establishing a proper method of representation was a goal and measure of the American Revolution, or as Thomas Jefferson said in 1776, "the whole object of the present controversy." A fine example of political and constitutional history, this timeless little book will serve as an excellent introduction to issues of representation for students in the fields of political science, as well as history and law.
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.
The Split History of the American Revolution
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2012-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756545706 |
"Describes the opposing viewpoints of the British and Patriots during the American Revolution"--Provided by publisher.