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American Revolution and Founding Era, 1765-1800: Books
Call Number: E184.6 .M55 2010 v.1-4 (Oversize First Floor)
ISBN: 1935306057
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Primary Documents and Resources in Standish Library
The American Revolution, 1754-1805 by Peter Kratzke (Editor); Salem Press EditorsThe American Revolution (1754-1805) chronicles key documents during the revolutionary era. Included are founding documents, speeches and political tracts, political sermons, and letters. Also included are Native American and African slave narratives.
Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine.
A classic oral history of the American Revolution, The Revolution Remembered uses 79 first-hand accounts from veterans of the war to provide the reader with the feel of what it must have been like to fight and live through America's bloody battle for independence.