Landmarks Of The American Revolution

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195128494
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of the American Revolution written by Gary B. Nash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775, on the green of Lexington, Massachusetts, 2,200 British minutemen fired upon the local militia -- seventy colonial farmers and village artisans in total. The British suffered staggering losses: half of their troops died. And so began the American Revolution. In Landmarks of the American Revolution, fourteen key sites and numerous secondary locales show with rich detail and fascinating anecdotes where the War of Independence took place. In addition to the Lexington-Concord Battle Site, historian Gary Nash features Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed; John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the out-of-work, 28-year-old immigrant who went on to become one of the new nation's naval heroes lived; Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg, Virginia, a place emblematic of African Americans' role in the war; and many other significant places of the American Revolution. A dynamic journey through history that reveals all sides in the war -- loyalists, patriots, African American, Native American, women, British -- Landmarks of the American Revolution brings to life how a new nation came to be.

Author : Mark Mayo Boatner
Publisher : Encyclopedia of the American R
ISBN 13 : 9780684314730
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of the American Revolution written by Mark Mayo Boatner and published by Encyclopedia of the American R. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the militarily important landmarks of the American Revolution provides state-by-state descriptions of preserved buildings, historical markers, and other sites alongside discussion of their historical importance.

Author : David C. Thurheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of the American Revolution in New York State written by David C. Thurheimer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Mayo Boatner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of the American Revolution written by Mark Mayo Boatner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cites the events and personalities associated with Revolutionary War battlefields, forts, taverns, and other historic sites found in Canada, twenty-seven states, and the District of Columbia.

Author : Mark M. Boatner III
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684325439
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of the American Revolution written by Mark M. Boatner III and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zooming in on key locations connected to the American Revolution, this expanded and completely revised edition of Col. Mark M. Boatner III's original book goes beyond U.S. borders when profiling historical sites and landmarks significant to the war. The original state-by-state guide now also includes coverage of the war in the West Indies and an expanded treatment of Canada.

Author : Lucille Recht Penner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty! written by Lucille Recht Penner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the outbreak of the American Revolution at Lexington in 1775 through stories and illustrations.

Author : Mark M Boatner
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780684314983
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Revolution and Landmarks written by Mark M Boatner and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zooming in on key locations connected to the American Revolution, this expanded and completely revised edition of Col. Mark M. Boatner III's Landmarks of the American Revolution goes beyond U.S. borders when profiling historical sites and landmarks significant to the war. The original state-by-state guide now also includes coverage of the war in the West Indies and an expanded treatment of Canada. Bringing history to life through travel, this informative and practical approach anchors the American Revolution to the present, providing real-life context readers can relate to and even locate. Contact information on individual historical sites is provided. All entries, maps, photographs and contacts have been updated.

Author : Adam Van Doren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567926620
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Founders' Footsteps written by Adam Van Doren and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America's founding. Obscure, well-known, off-the-beaten path, and on busy city streets, here are taverns, meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, homes which all combine to define our country--the places where daring people forged a revolution. There is always something new to be found in America's past that also brings greater clarity to our present and the future we choose to make as a nation. Author-artist Adam Van Doren traveled from Maine to Georgia in that spirit. There are thirty-seven landmarks included, with fifteen additional locations noted in brief. From the Bunker Hill monument in Massachusetts to the Camden Battlefield Site in South Carolina, this is a tour of an American cultural landscape with a curious, perceptive, and insightful guide. The reader steps inside cabins at Valley Forge where nearly two thousand soldiers perished during a cruel winter, meets the chef at Philadelphia's City Tavern where the menu is based on 18th century fare, seeks out the Swamp Fox in Georgia, visits the homes of Alexander Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, the Joseph Webb House on the Connecticut River where French general Rochambeau made plans with Washington, and much more. An unvarnished view, we also see Philipsburg Manor, in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where Blacks were once held as slaves to work in the Hudson River Valley. For armchair travelers and anyone fascinated by Americana, Van Doren (The House Tells the Story: Homes of the American Presidents) has created an unforgettable journey through history. We see the Founders--both their stunning achievements and chilling moral failures--where they lived, fought, and agreed on a common purpose, to create a nation whose future--and it's legacy--is continually evolving.

Author : Doug Gelbert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786416967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Revolutionary War Sites, Memorials, Museums and Library Collections written by Doug Gelbert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date information on over 700 sites in 28 states dedicated to the American Revolution, including battlefields, memorial markers, statues, museums, cemeteries, other landmarks, and library collections. Arranged by state, each entry provides a descriptive profile, address and telephone number, admission fees (if any) and policies, hours open, and other pertinent information. For each state, there is a profile of its role and a timeline of events.

Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429945850
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My American Revolution written by Robert Sullivan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. 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. And there are great adventures along the way: Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and—toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost "mountains," and eventually some physical therapy—he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian's failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment; a tattoo artist's more successful use of a colonial submarine, which resulted in his 2007 arrest by the New York City police and the FBI; and the life of Philip Freneau, the first (and not great) poet of American independence, who died in a swamp in the snow. Last but not least, along New York harbor, Sullivan re-creates an ancient signal beacon. Like an almanac, My American Revolution moves through the calendar of American independence, considering the weather and the tides, the harbor and the estuary and the yearly return of the stars as salient factors in the war for independence. In this fiercely individual and often hilarious journey to make our revolution his, he shows us how alive our own history is, right under our noses.