The American Revolution / Burg, David F

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.

Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the American Revolution, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.