James O'Neal Born: in Ireland Martha McCloud Born: in Ireland Rebecca O'Neal Born: 01 Dec 1802 in Eastern Tennessee Midget Brooks Born: 1797 in Eastern Tennessee Died: 25 Dec 1870 in Cottonwood Point, Pemiscot Co., Mo Died: 03 Feb 1875 ...
The 100th Monkey: Three Tales of Spiritual Revolution
A portrait of the supportive wife of President John Adams details the life of this extraordinary woman who used her love for learning, for her family, and for her country to shape the early history of the United States.
What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood’s mastery of his subject, and of the historian’s craft.
“Marion never encamped”: Commanger and Morris, Spirit of Seventy-Six. “Their number”: Commanger and Morris, Spirit of Seventy-Six. “We fight”: Hibbert, Redcoats and Rebels. “At the battle”: Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind.
Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War, catalog for the exhibit of Troiani's work at the Museum of the American Revolution, highlights pivotal events of America's fight for independence.
Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1996. Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. 1906. Reprint, New York: Modern Library, 2002. Carp, E. Wayne.
In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan delves into this first Middle America, digging for a glorious, heroic part of the past in the urban, suburban, and sometimes even rural landscape of today.
A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. "Joseph Ellis advises us well in this important new book about America . . .
“POSSIBLE MOLLIES” MARY LUDWIG HAYES AND MARGARET COCHRAN CORBIN Painting by Edward Percy Moran. Library of Congress LC-USZC4-4969. Molly Pitcher: “Possible Mollies” Mary Ludwig Hayes and Margaret Cochran Corbin.
(The British had a contradictory, politically calculated relationship with slavery: They freed slaves owned by rebels, but did not liberate those owned by Loyalists; they freed runaways who joined the army or served as auxiliaries, ...