Perform skits dramatizing British acts imposed on the Colonies. As colonists, debate whether or not to sign the Declaration of Independence. Design a tour of the sites of five critical battles. Write the Articles of Confederation. The bonus items are 22 x 34 full-color maps of Colonial America and of the Battles of the American Revolution plus a full-color chart: British Acts Imposed on the Colonies.
The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence.
... and the Mayhew-Apthorp controversy in Massachusetts — dramatized popular resentments against real or potential religious establishments and brought together the issues of civil and ecclesiastical oppression just at the time when the ...
From the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 April, 1775, up through the reduction of the victorious Continental Army to a single regiment in January 1784, this book is a day-to-day chronicle of the American Revolution, both on the ...
Taylor, Internal Enemy, 407–8; Wood, Empire of Liberty, 526–27; Stewart, Madison's Gift, 318–20. Taylor, Internal Enemy, 400–403; Peterson, Thomas Jefferson, 996–97; Stewart, Madison's Gift, 320–21. Aldridge, Man of Reason, 282.
Featuring essays from leading scholars and historians, and fully illustrated with historical military portraiture, documents, and maps indicating campaigns and territories, this book offers a completely new understanding of the American ...
26, 1782, quoted on 45 (“licks”); Chopra, Unnatural Rebellion, 198, 206; Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles, 63–64, 85–86; Moore, The Loyalists, 142–43; Ritcheson, “Britain's Peacemakers,” 96–100. 29. Albany resolutions, May 19, 1783 (“never to ...
"In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of spies on both the British and American sides"--
Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.
American Revolution looks at one of the most significant eras in American history through the eyes of its least famous and least studied participants, including women, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, soldiers, children, ...
Balancing social and political concerns of the period and perspectives of the average American revolutionary with a careful examination of the war itself, Ferling has crafted the ideal book for armchair military history buffs, a book about ...