This engaging overview of the American Revolution enables readers to consider and understand history with greater intimacy and accuracy through more than 40 primary documents.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Introduction.
Half Title Page.
The Road to Revolution.
1: Contemporary Reports of the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770).
2: Samuel Adams: Report on the Meeting of the Boston Committee of Correspondence (1772).
3: The Tea Act (1773).
4: The New York Sons of Liberty Tea Resolutions (1773).
5: Three Accounts of the Boston Tea Party (1773).
6: Maryland’s Reaction to the Intolerable Acts (1773–1774).
7: The Committee of Correspondence (May 31, 1774).
8: The Suffolk Resolves (1774).
9: Thomas Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America (August 1774).
10: Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses (March 23, 1775).
11: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Small (May 7, 1775).
12: Congress Grants Washington Command of the Continental Army (July 3, 1775).
13: Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775).
14: Letter from Thomas Jefferson Hoping for Reconciliation with Britain (August 25, 1775).
15: Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776).
16: John Adams: “Thoughts on Government” (April 1776).
17: The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776).
18: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America (July 4, 1776).
19: The American Crisis Papers #1 (December 19, 1776).
20: Paul Revere’s Account of His Ride (1783).
Battles of Liberty.
21: Letters on Lexington and Concord (1775).
22: Bunker’s Hill (1775).
23: The Invasion of Montreal and Quebec (1775).
24: The Siege of Boston (1775).
25: The Battle for Long Island, Northern Manhattan, and White Plains (1776).
26: The Battle of Trenton (1776).
27: The Skirmish of Sag Harbor (1777).
28: The Battles of Brandywine, Valley Forge, and the Paoli Massacre (1777–1778).
