Breen, T. H.

Summary: "Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging decades of received wisdom, T.H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans--most of them members of farm families living in small communities--were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. This is the compelling story of our national...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BRE

Grundset, Eric.

Contents: The northern states -- The South -- Miscellaneous naval and military records -- Foreign allies -- West Indies -- Appendices. Map of the enslaved population, 1790 Census ; Documenting the color of participants in the American Revolution ; Names as clues to finding forgotten patriots ; The numbers of minority participants in the Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2008

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 973.34 FOR

Smith, Daniel Blake.

Summary: An examination of the pervasive effects of the Cherokee nation's forced relocation considers the tribe's inability to acclimate to white culture and explores key roles played by Andrew Jackson, Chief John Ross, and Elias Boudinot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.004 SMI

Daughters of the American Revolution

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Publisher / Publication Date: Daughters of the American Revolution 0000

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373

Redmond, Shirley-Raye

Summary: Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 RED

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.308 RED

Langguth, A. J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 LAN

Burrows, Edwin G.

Summary: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.371 BUR

Greenwood, Lee.

Contents: The pledge of allegiance (2:26) -- America (3:21) -- God bless the U.S.A. (3:10) -- This land is your land (2:43) -- The battle hymn of the republic (3:50) -- God bless America (2:17) -- Dixie (3:10) -- The great defenders (3:03) -- America the beautiful (3:36) -- Star spangled banner (1:46).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY Green

Proenza-Coles, Christina

Summary: "American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NewSouth Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PRO

Gagne, Tammy

Summary: Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the birth of the nation and the heroes who brought it about. But many popular stories about the American Revolution have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the American Revolution dives into the myths about the war fought between the patriots and the redcoats and brings the truth to light....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.3 GAG

Coram, Robert.

Summary: During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent 67 months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, along with John McCain. Despite sustained torture, Day would not break. He became a hero to POWs everywhere--a man who fought without pause, not a prisoner of war, but a prisoner at war. Upon his return,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 COR

Corsi, Jerome R.

Summary: Explains the globalists' plan to put America on the chopping block and offers constructive solutions for resisting the global New Deal, reversing our dependence on foreign oil, and strengthening our middle class.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 COR

Doeden, Matt

Summary: Discusses the events of the Boston Tea Party, one of the acts by the American patriots that led to the American Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DOE

(Haag, John L., Ed.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.599 ALL

Turner, Ann Warren.

Summary: In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TUR

Vidal, Gore

Summary: Presents a series of articles and essays criticizing recent developments in American government and foreign policy, especially during the administration of George W. Bush.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 VID

Roberts, Cokie.

Summary: The stories of Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Eliza Pinckney, Mary Bartlett and Martha Washington among others are highlighted in this social history of early American women patriots.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 ROB

Summary: With the Boston Harbor still stained from over-taxed British tea, a revolution is brewing in the colonies! And now England has thousands of troops headed for America's shores to squelch her subjects' freedom-loving spirit! It's up to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to convince a stubborn congress of British colonists to unite as American patriots turn the inevitable war with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEV

Order of the Founders and Patriots of America

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gateway Press 1994

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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 369.13 ORD

Watkins, D. (Dwight)

Summary: From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, with searing conviction and full compassion, D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 WAT

National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1910

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 LIN

Limbaugh, Rush H.

Summary: Rush Revere rides again! Saddle up with Rush Limbaugh's really good pal for a new time-travel adventure. "Whoa there, young historians! Before we go rush, rush, rushing off anywhere, I'd like a moment. I'm Liberty, Rush Revere's loquacious equine companion -- his trusty talking horse! Always at the ready to leap from the twenty-first century into America's past, that's me. When he says 'Let's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J LIM