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Boston (Mass.) History Siege, 1775-1776 Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775 Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) Capture, 1775 Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 Massachusetts History Revolution, 1775-1783 Paine, Thomas 1737-1809 Revere, Paul United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 1775-1783 United States. Continental Congress.Kent, Deborah.
Summary: Describes the first battles of the Revolutionary War, the events leading up to the conflict, and the effect of helping the thirteen British colonies pull together for a common cause.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1997
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 KENPhillips, Kevin
Summary: In this fresh history of one of America's key turning points, author Kevin Phillips charts how this tumultuous year shaped America's commitment to revolution.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 PHIPhillips, Kevin
Summary: An unconventional assessment of the American Revolution examines the events, politics, economic factors, and military preparations of 1775 that ignited the war and established patriot control over American governance and key territories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 PHIFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "The narrative is constructed around two thematic lines. One story centers on the American patriot Paul Revere; the other, on British General Thomas Gage."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3311 FISTourtellot, Arthur Bernon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1963
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3311 TOUBorneman, Walter R.
Summary: "When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks of the war were much more tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British Army. American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BORHarasymiw, Mark
Summary: "The Team Time Machine kids are going back in time to a famous moment in American history--when American colonists battled the British forces at Lexington and Concord. As riveted readers tag along, the time-traveling adventurers witness these Revolutionary War battles and the British march back to Boston, setting the stage for the revolution that created the United States. Historical images and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HARNorton, Mary Beth
Summary: "A book on the American Revolution that looks at the critical "long year" of 1774, and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battle of Lexington and Concord."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 NORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 NORDaughan, George C
Summary: Reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution, arguing that the war was based as much in economic concerns as political ones and that most militiamen volunteered on behalf of their livelihoods and in protest of serf-like living conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 DAUGross, Robert A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1976