Voices Of Revolutionary America

Author : Lois Miner Huey
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 142965628X
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the American Revolution written by Lois Miner Huey and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents engaging, personal war stories from a variety of armed services and ranks. Includes information on weapons, battle sights and sounds, daily life, and living conditions.

Author : Rodger Streitmatter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231122497
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Revolution written by Rodger Streitmatter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the abolitionist and labor press, black power publications of the 1960s, the crusade against the barbarism of lynching, the women's movement, and antiwar journals. Streitmatter also discusses gay and lesbian publications, contemporary on-line journals, and counterculture papers like The Kudzu and The Berkeley Barb that flourished in the 1960s.

Author : Kendall Haven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313009813
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the American Revolution written by Kendall Haven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting accounts of real people tell the story of the American Revolution from diverse characters and viewpoints-from men, women, children, Patriots, Tories, pacifists, African-American slaves, Native Americans, Hessian mercenaries, and more. All major political, social, economic, and military viewpoints are represented. Political debates, military battles and maneuvering, the struggles of civilians, the role of children, and the fates of Tories and Continental soldiers at the end of the war are just some of the themes covered. With each story, Haven includes a variety of learning extensions-objective questions, research projects, hands-on learning activities, and open-ended points to ponder for discussion and debate. A bibliography of resources for further study completes the work. Packed with information, this engaging collection is a wonderful supplement to American History units, a great resource for read-alouds and student reports.

Author : Ed Southern
Publisher : Blair
ISBN 13 : 9780895873583
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas written by Ed Southern and published by Blair. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses 27 firsthand accounts from actual participants to help readers experience what life was like between 1775 and 1782.

Author : Todd W. Braisted
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237514
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bergen County Voices from the American Revolution written by Todd W. Braisted and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bergen County saw much of the American Revolution from its own doorstep. Close to British-occupied New York City, this corner of New Jersey was divided by the Revolution. Some people were staunch Loyalists or Patriots, in disagreement with their families and neighbors; others wavered or remained neutral, while still others changed their minds as was expedient. In the end, the years of hostilities led to massive damage and upheaval within the community as men either left home or stayed nearby to fight for or against secession from Great Britain. After the war, their pension applications allow glimpses into their experiences. Compiled and edited by local historian and Revolutionary War expert Todd W. Braisted, these are the stories of the Revolutionary soldiers of Bergen County.

Author : Carol Sue Humphrey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Revolutionary America written by Carol Sue Humphrey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time. Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, readers get the largely untold story of the American Revolution: the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles. This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.

Author : Sandy Pobst
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia, 1607-1776 written by Sandy Pobst and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about colonial Virginia.

Author : Don N. Hagist
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781594162046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Soldiers, American War written by Don N. Hagist and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Rare and Fascinating First-Person Profiles of Soldiers Who Fought for the British Crown Much has been written about the colonists who took up arms during the American Revolution and the army they created. Far less literature, however, has been devoted to their adversaries. The professional soldiers that composed the British army are seldom considered on a personal level, instead being either overlooked or inaccurately characterized as conscripts and criminals. Most of the British Redcoats sent to America in defense of their government's policies were career soldiers who enlisted voluntarily in their late teens or early twenties. They came from all walks of British life, including those with nowhere else to turn, those aspiring to improve their social standing, and all others in between. Statistics show that most were simply hardworking men with various amounts of education who had chosen the military in preference to other occupations. Very few of these soldiers left writings from which we can learn their private motives and experiences. British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution is the first collection of personal narratives by British common soldiers ever assembled and published. Author Don N. Hagist has located first-hand accounts of nine soldiers who served in America in the 1770s and 1780s. In their own words we learn of the diverse population--among them a former weaver, a boy who quarelled with his family, and a man with wanderlust--who joined the army and served tirelessly and dutifully, sometimes faithfully and sometimes irresolutely, in the uniform of their nation. To accompany each narrative, the author provides a contextualizing essay based on archival research giving background on the soldier and his military service. Taken as a whole these true stories reveal much about the individuals who composed what was, at the time, the most formidable fighting force in the world.

Author : Jesse McDermott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792264101
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhode Island, 1636-1776 written by Jesse McDermott and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced by period maps and first-person accounts, presents the history of colonial Rhode Island.

Author : Noel Rae
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762777206
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's War written by Noel Rae and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one of history's great events, the Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers and sailors who fought it and the civilians who endured it. Drawing on thousands of original sources---diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, pension applications---the author has culled the most colorful and vivid passages and then woven them into a vibrant, eye-witness narrative that takes the reader from the peaceful days before the Stamp Act, through all the major events of the war, and ends with farewell accounts of what happened in later life to the people we have come to know along the way. Some of these, like Franklin, Washington, Adams and George III, are familiar figures, but most were ordinary people, little known to history, but here briefly emerging from obscurity to tell of what they did in those exciting and important times: a farm boy who ran away to sea at the age of twelve, a New England shoemaker who kept volunteering for further service to the dismay of his wife who wanted him home, a professor of divinity at Yale who took up his musket when the British raided New Haven, a pretty young widow who was roughed up when her plantation was raided by Tory ruffians and a cross-eyed termagant who gunned two such villains when they invaded her log-cabin, a German student of poetry dragooned into a Hessian regiment, a Quaker housewife trying to hold things together in British-occupied Philadelphia, an Indian warrior who seems to have relished his part in the Cherry Valley Massacre, a slave who escaped to the British after witnessing his mother being flogged, an aristocratic French officer enamored with the cause of liberty, a genial Englishman shocked at the baseness of the rebels---these are but a few of the people whose collective voices, drawn from all sides of the conflict, bring the Revolution to life in a way that is as unique as it is entertaining. It is also history at its most authoritative, for who better qualified to tell what happened than the people who were there?