Book Description
Presents engaging, personal war stories from a variety of armed services and ranks. Includes information on weapons, battle sights and sounds, daily life, and living conditions.
Author : Lois Miner Huey
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142965628X
Presents engaging, personal war stories from a variety of armed services and ranks. Includes information on weapons, battle sights and sounds, daily life, and living conditions.
Author : Ed Southern
Publisher : Blair
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780895873583
This book uses 27 firsthand accounts from actual participants to help readers experience what life was like between 1775 and 1782.
Author : Kendall Haven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313009813
Riveting accounts of real people tell the story of the American Revolution from diverse characters and viewpoints-from men, women, children, Patriots, Tories, pacifists, African-American slaves, Native Americans, Hessian mercenaries, and more. All major political, social, economic, and military viewpoints are represented. Political debates, military battles and maneuvering, the struggles of civilians, the role of children, and the fates of Tories and Continental soldiers at the end of the war are just some of the themes covered. With each story, Haven includes a variety of learning extensions-objective questions, research projects, hands-on learning activities, and open-ended points to ponder for discussion and debate. A bibliography of resources for further study completes the work. Packed with information, this engaging collection is a wonderful supplement to American History units, a great resource for read-alouds and student reports.
Author : Todd W. Braisted
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1614237514
Bergen County saw much of the American Revolution from its own doorstep. Close to British-occupied New York City, this corner of New Jersey was divided by the Revolution. Some people were staunch Loyalists or Patriots, in disagreement with their families and neighbors; others wavered or remained neutral, while still others changed their minds as was expedient. In the end, the years of hostilities led to massive damage and upheaval within the community as men either left home or stayed nearby to fight for or against secession from Great Britain. After the war, their pension applications allow glimpses into their experiences. Compiled and edited by local historian and Revolutionary War expert Todd W. Braisted, these are the stories of the Revolutionary soldiers of Bergen County.
Author : Don N. Hagist
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594162046
Nine Rare and Fascinating First-Person Profiles of Soldiers Who Fought for the British Crown Much has been written about the colonists who took up arms during the American Revolution and the army they created. Far less literature, however, has been devoted to their adversaries. The professional soldiers that composed the British army are seldom considered on a personal level, instead being either overlooked or inaccurately characterized as conscripts and criminals. Most of the British Redcoats sent to America in defense of their government's policies were career soldiers who enlisted voluntarily in their late teens or early twenties. They came from all walks of British life, including those with nowhere else to turn, those aspiring to improve their social standing, and all others in between. Statistics show that most were simply hardworking men with various amounts of education who had chosen the military in preference to other occupations. Very few of these soldiers left writings from which we can learn their private motives and experiences. British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution is the first collection of personal narratives by British common soldiers ever assembled and published. Author Don N. Hagist has located first-hand accounts of nine soldiers who served in America in the 1770s and 1780s. In their own words we learn of the diverse population--among them a former weaver, a boy who quarelled with his family, and a man with wanderlust--who joined the army and served tirelessly and dutifully, sometimes faithfully and sometimes irresolutely, in the uniform of their nation. To accompany each narrative, the author provides a contextualizing essay based on archival research giving background on the soldier and his military service. Taken as a whole these true stories reveal much about the individuals who composed what was, at the time, the most formidable fighting force in the world.
Author : Rodger Streitmatter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2001-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0231502710
Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them. From publications that fought for the disenfranchised to those that promoted social reform, Voices of Revolution examines the abolitionist and labor press, black power publications of the 1960s, the crusade against the barbarism of lynching, the women's movement, and antiwar journals. Streitmatter also discusses gay and lesbian publications, contemporary on-line journals, and counterculture papers like The Kudzu and The Berkeley Barb that flourished in the 1960s. Voices of Revolution also identifies and discusses some of the distinctive characteristics shared by the genres of the dissident press that rose to prominence—from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. For far too long, mainstream journalists and even some media scholars have viewed radical, leftist, or progressive periodicals in America as "rags edited by crackpots." However, many of these dissident presses have shaped the way Americans think about social and political issues.
Author : Peoples Bicentennial Commission
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jesse McDermott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780792264101
Enhanced by period maps and first-person accounts, presents the history of colonial Rhode Island.
Author : Sandy Pobst
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Learn about colonial Virginia.
Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426300424
Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.