America at 250: Revolutionary Reads

Celebrate and explore the rich history of the American Revolution with essential works selected by RCL subject editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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America at 250: Revolutionary Reads

Celebrate and explore the rich history of the American Revolution with essential works selected by RCL subject editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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American revolutions : a continental history, 1750-1804
Taylor, Alan
Paper Book
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the...
The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789
Middlekauff, Robert.
Paper Book
This outstanding narrative history, the first volume to appear in the Oxford History of the United States, offers an intimate view of the development of the Revolutionary War, the battle between the colonies and the motherland, and the establishment of the American republic. Beginning with the...
The men who lost America : British Command during the Revolutionary War and the preservation of the Empire
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson
Paper Book
The loss of America in 1781 has traditionally been blamed on incompetent British military commanders and political leaders whose arrogant confidence and out-dated tactics were no match for the innovative and determined Americans. But this is far from the truth. Weaving together the...
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