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American Revolution
SHS Media Center
9/30/2011
920 NOT
Notable American Women 1607-1950 : A biographical dictionary
Volumes I, II, and III
920 FLE
The intimate lives of the founding fathers / Thomas Fleming.
Discusses the personal lives of the founding fathers and the women who played significant
roles, such as Mary Ball Washington, Rachel Lavien Hamilton, Sarah Fairfax, Abigail
Adams, Sally Hemings, and others.
B ADAMS
John Adams / David McCullough.
Pulitzer Prize
B WASHINGTON
George Washington and the founding of a nation / Albert Marrin
B WASHINGTON
George Washington and the making of a nation / Marcus Cunliffe
A biography of the first President, emphasizing his role in the Revolution. Includes portraits,
paintings, surveys, and maps.
323.44 FIS
Liberty and freedom / David Hackett Fischer
Contents: Introduction : a conversation with Captain Preston -- Early America : visions of
the Founders, 1607-1775 -- A republic united : the search for a common vision, 1775-1840 -A nation divided : liberty against freedom, 1840-1912 -- A world at war : a free society and
its enemies, 1916-1945 -- A people among others : global visions of liberty and freedom,
1945-2004 -- Conclusion : the view from Tocqueville's terrace.
917.3 EVA
Weathering the storm: Women of the American Revolution / Elizabeth Evans
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Opposing viewpoints in American history
Contents: Origins of English Settlement -- National and economic reasons to colonize
America -- A puritan's reasons for colonizing America -- Virginia is an abundant New
Paradise -- Virginia is not a New Paradise -- Indians and colonists should live in peace /
Powhatan -- Indians should be conquered and exterminated (1622) -- A Puritan missionary's
account of Indians -- A Puritan captive's account of Indians -- The Antinomians are
following the spirit of God / Anne Hutchinson, et al. -- The Antinomians were heretics
destroying the community / Thomas Welde -- The Great awakening is a welcome religious
revival -- The Great awakening has led to harmful religious zealotry -- Poor Europeans
should come to America as Indentured Servants -- Bacon's Rebellion is a justified revolution
/ Nathaniel Bacon -- Bacon's Rebellion is a treasonous insurrection -- Slavery is immoral -Slavery is moral -- Parliament is abusing the rights of Americans -- Parliament is not abusing
the rights of Americans -- War against the British is not justified -- War against the British is
justified -- America must be independent of Great Britain / Thomas Paine -- America must
seek reconciliation with Great Britain -- A republican form of government is best / John
Adams -- Popular democracy is the best form of government -- Shay's rebellion indicates the
need for a new constitution / George Washington -- The threat posed by Shay's rebellion has
been exaggerated / Thomas Jefferson -- A republic must be small and uniform to survive -A viable republic can be large and diverse / James Madison -- The constitution needs a bill
of rights / Patrick Henry -- The constitution does not need a bill of rights / Alexander
Hamilton -- A national bank would be unconstitutional / Thomas Jefferson -- A national
bank would not be unconstitutional / Alexander Hamilton -- Jay's treaty should be rejected -Jay's treaty should be accepted -- The sedition act violates the bill of rights -- The sedition
act does not violate the bill of rights -- The Louisiana Purchase should be approved / Thomas
Jefferson
973 TAK
Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in American History Volume I Colonial
period to reconstruction
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Incomplete contents: Part 1 -- Colonial Society Is America exceptional? -- Were the English colonies
guilty of genocide? -- Was the colonial period a "golden age" for women in America? -- Did racism
cause the enslavement of Africans in America? -- Was there a great awakening in mid-eighteenth
century America
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Incomplete contents: Part 2 -- Revolution and the new nation -- Was the American Revolution
primarily a struggle for power? -- Were the founding fathers democratic reformers? -- Was Thomas
Jefferson a political compromiser?
973 TAK
Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in American history Volume I The
Colonial Period to Reconstruction 3rd edition/
Contents: Was colonial culture uniquely American? -- Was conflict unavoidable between native Americans and
colonists? -- Was the colonial period a "golden age" for women in America? -- Did American slaves develop a
distinct Afro-American culture in the eighteenth century? -- Can the revolution serve as a developmental model
for third world nations today? -- Was the great awakening a key to the American revolution?
973.2 AME
The French and Indian Wars / Francis Russell
973.2 COL
Roger Sherman’s Connecticut: Yankee politics and the American Revolution / Christopher
Collier
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973.2 FRA
Benjamin Franklin: Writings / Benjamin Franklin
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Jamestown Colony / Frank E. Grizzard
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Colonial America to 1763
Presents 250 alphabetically-arranged entries that describe the political, social, and cultural
history of the Jamestown Colony; and profiles major events and people, census of first and
second settlers, native tribes, colonial expansion
973.27 CUR
Road to revolution : Benjamin Franklin / Cecil B. Currey
973.3 AME
Opposing viewpoints in world history: The American Revolution /
Chapter 1 -- Did the British abuse colonial rights? -- Chapter 2 -- Was the war for
independence justified? -- Chapter 3 -- What is the ideal form of government? -- Chapter 4 What is the meaning of the American Revolution? Historians debate.
973.3 AME
Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill / by the editors of American Heritage ; author: Francis
Russell ; consultant: Richard M. Ketchum.
973.3 ARO
The real revolution: The global story of American independence / Marc Aronson
973.3 BAK
Signers of the declaration / John and Katherine Bakeless.
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/ The American Revolution David F. Burg
A history of the American Revolution, looking at nine time periods from 1756 to 1783, each
with a narrative description of key events and a selection of firsthand accounts from diary
entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper articles.
Prelude to revolt : 1756-1774 -- Shots heard round the world : 1775 -- Declaring
independence : 1776 -- Victories and losses : 1777 -- From Valley Forge to Vincennes :
1778 -- A great sea battle : 1779 -- Defeat and treachery : 1780 -- An improbable triumph :
1781 -- An unpromising outcome : 1782-1783.
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973.3 DRA
A struggle for power : the American revolution / Theodore Draper.
973.3 FRA
Framers of the Constitution / James H. Charleton, Robert G. Ferris, Mary C. Ryan, editors.
973.3 FRE
Give me liberty : The story of the Declaration of Independence / Russell Freedman
973.3 JEF
Thomas Jefferson: Writings / Thomas Jefferson
Autobiography
A summary view of the rights of British America
Notes on the State of Virginia
Public Papers
Addresses, Messages, and Replies
Letters, etc.
973.3 MAR
The war for independence: The story of the American Revolution / Albert Marrin
A detailed account of the Revolutionary War beginning with its origins in the French and
Indian War.
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1776 / David McCullum
Reproductions of original letters, maps, and other illustrations included in attached
envelopes.
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1776 / David McCullum
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The Revolutionary War / Bart McDowell
A detailed account of the Revolutionary War. Excerpts from contemporary writings help to
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bring the people who were involved in the struggle to life. Also included are reproductions
of sketches and paintings their artists drew and beautiful color photographs of their homes.
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Atlas of the American Revolution [cartographic material] map selection and commentary by
Kenneth Nebenzahl ; narrative text by Don Higginbotham.
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The cultural life of the new nation 1776-1830 / Russel Blaine Nye
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Revolutionary America 1763-1800 / Thomas L. Purvis
973.3 LAN
From Lexington to Liberty: the story of the American Revolution / Bruce Lancaster
973.3 REV
The revolutionaries /
973.3 ROS
Know your Declaration of Independence and the 56 signers / George Ross
973.73 AME
The Battle of Gettysburg / Bruce Catton
973.3 HAM
Why America is free: A history of the founding of the American Republic 1750-1800 /
Kenneth E. Hamburger, Joseph R. Fischer, Steven C. Gravlin.
973.3 SCO
Trumpet of a prophecy: Revolutionary America 1763-1783 / John Anthony Scott
973.332 FIS
Washington’s Crossing / David Hackett Fischer
Pulitzer Prize
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Ships and seamen of the American Revolution: vessels, crews, weapons, gear, naval tactics,
and actions of the war for independence / Jack Coggins
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Thomas Jefferson: a biographical companion / David S. Brown.
An encyclopedia covering the life of Thomas Jefferson and the key issues, events, and
personalities that shaped him.
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Connecticut joins the revolution /
974.6 CAL
Connecticut's Revolutionary War leaders / North Callahan
Ethan Allen -- Israel Putnam -- Rufus Putnam -- Joseph Spencer -- David Wooster -- Samuel
H. Parsons -- Jedediah Huntington -- Thomas Knowlton -- Benjamin Tallmadge -- Jeremiah
Wadsworth -- Benedict Arnold.
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Connecticut’s young man of the revolution: Oliver Ellsworth / Ronald John Lettieri
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Connecticut hero: Israel Putnam / John Niven
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Connecticut attacked: A British viewpoint, Tryon’s raid on Danbury / Robert F. McDevitt
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Connecticut’s war governor: Jonathan Trumbull / David M. Roth
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Connecticut’s black soldiers 1775-1783 / David O. White
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Connecticut’s dark star of the revolution: General Benedict Arnold / Willard M. Wallace
974.6 WAR
Connecticut’s western colony: The Susquehannah affair / Richard T. Warfle
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