Independence Day

Come celebrate the 4th of July with these patriotic reads.

Updated June 28, 2024
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The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation
Calloway, Colin G.
Ebook
Revolutionary mothers : women in the struggle for America's independence
Berkin, Carol.
Paper Book
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle. Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. We see women boycotting...
Liberty is sweet : the hidden history of the American Revolution
Holton, Woody
Ebook
A "deeply researched and bracing retelling" (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans--women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than...
Native Americans in the American Revolution : how the war divided, devastated, and transformed the early American Indian world
Schmidt, Ethan A.
Paper Book
This valuable book provides a succinct, readable account of an oft-neglected topic in the historiography of the American Revolution: the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion. There has not been an all-encompassing narrative of the...
The marquis : Lafayette reconsidered
Auricchio, Laura.
Paper Book
A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the...

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