Brands, H. W.

Summary: A complete biography of the statesman and scientist, Benjamin Franklin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000

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Adams, John

Summary: "... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters"--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011

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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Franklin, Benjamin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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Franklin, Benjamin

Contents: Letters from London, 1757-1775 -- Paris, 1776-1785: including political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters -- Philadelphia, 1785-1790: including bagatelles, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, letters -- Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758 -- The autobiography.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997

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Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)

Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023

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Lepore, Jill

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998

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Brands, H. W.

Summary: What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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Richter, Daniel K.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001

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Summary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009

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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: "A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

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Franklin, Benjamin

Contents: First mission to England, 1757-62 -- Return to Philadelphia, 1762-64 -- Second mission to England, 1764-75 -- Congress and the Declaration of Independence, 1775-76 -- Minister to France, 1776-78 : the Treaty of Alliance -- Minister to France, 1778-79 : an ambassador's life -- Minister to France, 1779-81 : the war continues -- Minister to France, 1781-83 : Peace Treaty with England -- Minister...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2006

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Franklin, Benjamin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1987

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Knollenberg, Bernhard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1975

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Brands, H. W.

Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 BRA