Author : Beatrice Gormley
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802854184
Sally Gifford, a Patriot shoemaker's daughter, tries to maintain her close friendship with Kitty Lawton, the daughter of a Loyalist official, as pre-Revolutionary War tensions in 1773 Boston increase and push them apart.
Author : Gary Nash
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0786746483
Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army. During the Revolution, Hull served Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszko's abhorrence of bondage shaped histhinking about the oppression in his own land. When Kosciuszko returned to America in the 1790s, bearing the wounds of his own failed revolution, he and Jefferson forged an intense friendship based on their shared dreams for the global expansion of human freedom. They sealed their bond with a blood compact whereby Jefferson would liberate his slaves upon Kosciuszko's death. But Jefferson died without fulfilling the promise he had made to Kosciuszko-and to a fledgling nation founded on the principle of liberty and justice for all.
Author : Micah Alpaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1316515613
Demonstrates how the activists who mobilized the Age of Atlantic Revolutions' greatest social movements worked together across nations.
Author : Colleen A. Sheehan
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 1788, argued for the Constitution's ratification. In a collection central to our understanding of the American founding, Friends of the Constitution brings together forty-nine of the most important of these "other" Federalists' writings. Colleen A. Sheehan is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Gary L. McDowell is the Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Professor of Leadership Studies, Political Science, and Law at the University of Richmond in Virginia. From 1992 to 2003 he was the Director of the Institute of United States Studies in the University of London.
Author : Kirby Larson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545840732
From a Newbery Honor author, a white boy and black girl bond in World War II Louisiana as they rescue a dog in this “practically perfect” historical novel (Kirkus Reviews). With his dad serving in World War II in Europe, and his sister working at the Higgins Boat factory to support the war effort, Fish Elliot fights off loneliness. That is, when he’s not fending off his annoying neighbor, Olympia, who has a knack for messing up Fish’s inventions. But when his latest invention leads Fish to Liberty, a beautiful stray dog who needs a home, he and Olympia work together to rescue her. His growing friendship with Olympia, who is African American, is not the norm in 1940s New Orleans. But as they work together to save Liberty, he finds his perceptions of the world—of race and war, family and friendship—transformed. “Larson . . . creates an engaging story that is rich in historical details. She purposefully captures both the fear and the hope in a world torn by war as well as the simple love of a boy for his dog. Practically perfect.” —Kirkus Reviews “A slice-of-life tale for historical fiction fans and animal lovers alike.” —School Library Journal
Author : Elizabeth Mann
Publisher : Mikaya Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 1931414459
Presents a brief history of the Statue of Liberty and describes how France gave the statue to New York City to commemorate the realtionship between the two countries, the creation and erection of the statue, and how its meaning has changed.
Author : Linda Tannehill
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Free enterprise
ISBN : 1610163958
Author : Albert Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1317189876
This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland and Ireland. The book emphasizes the importance of the great regional centres of provincial radicalism and of the evolution of a local, radical press. It also throws light on the impact of Painite radicalism, the origins of Anglo-french hostilities in 1793, the English treason trials of 1794, the protest movement of 1795 and the final phase of Anglo-Irish clandestine republicanism.
Author : Maria Weston Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 1848
Category : African American authors
ISBN :
Author : Paullina Simons
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062103245
Children of Liberty, the much-anticipated prequel to Paullina Simons’s The Bronze Horseman, is a story of love and possibility in turn-of-the-century America. Gina Attaviano travels from Sicily to Boston to start a new life with only the clothes on her back. Harry Barrington is the son of one of New England’s most successful businessmen. Despite their differences and the strong opposition of their families, their attraction is strong. Set against a time of transformation for a growing nation, Gina and Harry must find the courage to do what is right, no matter what the price. Deeply emotional and satisfying, Children of Liberty features a cast of characters you’ll root for as they fight against their feelings, but discover that true love can never be denied.
