Recounts the role of the underprivileged and poor, including indentured servants, new immigrants, Native Americans and slaves, in the making of America until 1815 through the eyes and voices of ordinary people.
Provides an inside look at the role children played in the American Revolution. Contains a series of accounts written by various historians detailing the heroic acts performed by children during the war and the hardships the children were forced to endure.
A discussion of the events leading up to the American war for independence from Britain, the revolutionary struggle, the Declaration of Independence, and the beginning of a new nation.
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace, but when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
Tells the story of the American Revolution from the perspective of the British losers, focusing on the military aspects of the conflict, with dramatizations of battles, eyewitness accounts, documents, and paintings.
A "study of the espionage, counter-espionage, and other military intelligence services in the Continental and British armies in the main theatre of war" just prior to, and during, the Revolutionary War.