Author: Dumas Malone
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Dumas Malone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195018493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Donald Moriarty O'Leary
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781977218971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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There always seemed to be an adventure to be had and a story to be told, written or remembered! Pursuing a dream to travel, see amazing places, meet wonderful people from all walks of life, and sharing thoughts and experiences in my journals was the best way to memorialize it! Starting in my early youth, fantasizing about travel and adventure from books, movies to re-enacting them with make shift forts, rafts, and friends, a little "Walter Mitty-esque"! It was amazing to read our old encyclopedias, looking at world history and maps, learning about legendary figures! I wanted to be a writer, an artist, a singer, an athlete...lead a cavalry charge, swing from tree to tree, climb the highest peaks, cross the great divide, etc...endless dreams. At the age of 17, I was fully grown and asserting my young adulthood, with a say in my life decisions about my future education, activities, and travel! One of my best friends and I took off for NYC, Boston, and Walden Pond the summer before our senior year in high school for a TRULY awakening experience!!! A year later in college at Alfred State together with some other friends, 2 years later off to Arizona State with another friend, back east to SUNY Oswego, Outward Bound program in North Carolina and ultimately off to Bruges, Belgium to end my senior year of college and beyond... Did I say MIND-BLOWING, 5 years later and 22... on roads less traveled! Come join the ride and or continue on your own journey!!!

Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0823414485
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Celebrated children’s historian Russell Freedman explores the tensions in colonial America that led to the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of a nation. This engaging account delves into the deep-rooted conflicts between the American colonies and the British crown, presenting the Revolution not as a sudden break between distant governments but an inevitable result of building pressure, spurred on by events and guided by the distinct personalities that would become the Founding Fathers. With a strong focus on cause and effect and the actions of important individuals, Give Me Liberty! traces the tensions that built up in the 1770s, including the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, and the early battles of the Revolutionary War, culminating in the signing of the Declaration in 1776, and its spread through the new American nation. Illustrated with historical paintings, prints, and document reproductions, Freedman weaves primary sources and contemporaneous accounts into his narrative, making it an immersive and eye-catching resource. Perfect for students of American history, this introduction to the American Revolution also includes a final chapter on how the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence have persisted and evolved through the years, inspiring later generations to seek rights for more and more Americans. Detailed backmatter includes a printed image and full text of the Declaration, a timeline of events, selected bibliography, and index.

Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Author: George Graham Suggs (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Conceived as a Bicentennial contribution to our understanding of the enormously complex phenomenon that was the American Revolution, this collection of original essays by some of this country s most distinguished scholars sheds new light and casts new perspectives on aspects of the Revolutionary era.The contributors are: Robert E. Brown (Emeritus Professor of History, Michigan State University), Jack P. Greene (Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins), Don Higginbotham (Professor of American History, University of North Carolina), James Morton Smith (Director, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum), and Carl Ubbelohde (Henry Elridge Bourne Professor of History at Case Western Reserve).The essays cover such topics as the decision to rebel, the nature of the revolution, and the personalities of the leaders. Taken together, they provide unusually searching analyses, and will be of interest to general readers as well as specialists."

Author: Anne H. Cook
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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