The Shoemaker and the Tea Party Book
Score: 3
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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

  • Author : Alfred F. Young
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release Date : 2001-01-17
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 10 : 9780807071427
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George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party Book
Score: 3.5
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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

  • Author : Alfred F. Young
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release Date : 2000-03-17
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 286
  • ISBN 10 : 0807054054
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George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party Book
Score: 5
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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

  • Author : Alfred F. Young
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release Date : 2000-03-17
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 292
  • ISBN 10 : 0807054054
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George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

Defiance of the Patriots Book
Score: 4
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Defiance of the Patriots

  • Author : Benjamin L. Carp
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release Date : 2010-10-26
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 336
  • ISBN 10 : 9780300168457
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This thrilling book tells the full story of the an iconic episode in American history, the Boston Tea Party-exploding myths, exploring the unique city life of eighteenth-century Boston, and setting this audacious prelude to the American Revolution in a global context for the first time. Bringing vividly to life the diverse array of people and places that the Tea Party brought together-from Chinese tea-pickers to English businessmen, Native American tribes, sugar plantation slaves, and Boston's ladies of leisure-Benjamin L. Carp illuminates how a determined group of New Englanders shook the foundations of the British Empire, and what this has meant for Americans since. As he reveals many little-known historical facts and considers the Tea Party's uncertain legacy, he presents a compelling and expansive history of an iconic event in America's tempestuous past.

Whose American Revolution was It Book

Whose American Revolution was It

  • Author : Alfred F. Young
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release Date : 2011-09
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 295
  • ISBN 10 : 9780814797112
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The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted the Revolution for our own time. As the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of the period’s historiography and its historians, Whose American Revolution Was It? is an essential reference for anyone studying early American history. The first section, by Alfred F. Young, begins in 1925 with historian J. Franklin Jameson and takes the reader through the successive schools of interpretation up to the 1990s. The second section, by Gregory H. Nobles, focuses primarily on the ways present-day historians have expanded our understanding of the broader social history of the Revolution, bringing onto the stage farmers and artisans, who made up the majority of white men, as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and women of all social classes.

In Search of First Contact Book
Score: 4
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In Search of First Contact

  • Author : Annette Kolodny
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release Date : 2012-05-29
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 447
  • ISBN 10 : 9780822352860
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A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.

Lincoln Legends Book
Score: 4.5
From 5 Ratings

Lincoln Legends

  • Author : Edward SteersJr.
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release Date : 2007-10-12
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 10 : 9780813172750
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In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America’s most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry as authors and researchers have examined every aspect— personal and professional —of the president’s life. In Lincoln Legends, noted historian and Lincoln expert Edward Steers Jr. carefully scrutinizes some of the most notorious tall tales and distorted ideas about America’s sixteenth president. These inaccuracies and speculations about Lincoln’s personal and professional life abound. Did he write his greatest speech on the back of an envelope on the way to Gettysburg? Did Lincoln appear before a congressional committee to defend his wife against charges of treason? Was he an illegitimate child? Did Lincoln have romantic encounters with women other than his wife? Did he have love affairs with men? What really happened in the weeks leading up to April 14, 1865, and in the aftermath of Lincoln’s tragic assassination? Lincoln Legends evaluates the evidence on all sides of the many heated debates about the Great Emancipator. Not only does Steers weigh the merits of all relevant arguments and interpretations, but he also traces the often fascinating evolution of flawed theories about Lincoln and uncovers the motivations of the individuals—occasionally sincere but more often cynical, self-serving, and nefarious—who are responsible for their dispersal. Based on extensive primary research, the conclusions in Lincoln Legends will settle many of the enduring questions and persistent myths about Lincoln’s life once and for all. Steers leaves us with a clearer image of Abraham Lincoln as a man, as an exceptionally effective president, and as a deserving recipient of the nation’s admiration.

Friends of Liberty Book
Score: 4
From 10 Ratings

Friends of Liberty

  • Author : Beatrice Gormley
  • Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
  • Release Date : 2013-08
  • Genre: Juvenile Fiction
  • Pages : 98
  • ISBN 10 : 9780802854186
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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.

Masquerade Book

Masquerade

  • Author : Alfred F. Young
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 2005-03-08
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 434
  • ISBN 10 : 9780679761853
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In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.

Inheriting the Revolution Book

Inheriting the Revolution

  • Author : Joyce Appleby
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release Date : 2001-09-15
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 338
  • ISBN 10 : 9780674006638
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Details the experiences of the first generation of Americans who inherited the independent country, discussing the lives, businesses, and religious freedoms that transformed the country in its early years.

Ten Tea Parties Book
Score: 4
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Ten Tea Parties

  • Author : Joseph Cummins
  • Publisher : Quirk Books
  • Release Date : 2012-02-07
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 197
  • ISBN 10 : 9781594745621
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Everyone knows the story of the Boston Tea Party—in which colonists stormed three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. But do you know the history of the Philadelphia Tea Party (December 1773)? How about the York, Maine, Tea Party (September 1774) or the Wilmington, North Carolina, Tea Party (March 1775)? Ten Tea Parties is the first book to chronicle all these uniquely American protests. Author and historian Joseph Cummins begins with the history of the East India Company (the biggest global corporation in the eighteenth century) and their staggering financial losses during the Boston Tea Party (more than a million dollars in today’s money). From there we travel to Philadelphia, where Captain Samuel Ayres was nearly tarred and feathered by a mob of 8,000 angry patriots. Then we set sail for New York City, where the Sons of Liberty raided the London and heaved 18 chests of tea into the Hudson River. Still later, in Annapolis, Maryland, a brigantine carrying 2,320 pounds of the “wretched weed” was burned to ashes. Together, the stories in Ten Tea Parties illuminate the power of Americans banding together as Americans—for the very first time in the fledgling nation’s history. It’s no wonder these patriots remain an inspiration to so many people today.

Symbolic Logic Book
Score: 1
From 1 Ratings

Symbolic Logic

  • Author : David W. Agler
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date : 2012-11
  • Genre: Logic, Modern
  • Pages : 397
  • ISBN 10 : 9781442217423
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Brimming with visual examples of concepts, derivation rules, and proof strategies, this introductory text is ideal for students with no previous experience in logic. Students will learn translation both from formal language into English and from English into formal language; how to use truth trees and truth tables to test propositions for logical properties; and how to construct and strategically use derivation rules in proofs.

Colonial Voices Hear Them Speak Book
Score: 3.5
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Colonial Voices Hear Them Speak

  • Author : Kay Winters
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release Date : 2015-03-10
  • Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 9780147511621
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Follow an errand boy through colonial Boston as he spreads word of rebellion. It's December 16, 1773, and Boston is about to explode! King George has decided to tax the colonists' tea. The Patriots have had enough. Ethan, the printer's errand boy, is running through town to deliver a message about an important meeting. As he stops along his route at the bakery, the schoolhouse, the tavern, and more readers learn about the occupations of colonial workers and their differing opinions about living under Britain's rule. This fascinating book is like a field trip to a living history village. * "Winter’s strong, moving text is supported by a thoughtful design that incorporates the look of historical papers, and rich paintings capture the individuals and their circumstances as well as what’s at stake."—Booklist, starred review

Miss Spider s Tea Party Book
Score: 4.5
From 26 Ratings

Miss Spider s Tea Party

  • Author : Anonim
  • Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
  • Release Date : 2007
  • Genre: Juvenile Fiction
  • Pages : 32
  • ISBN 10 : 0439918170
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Readers can count to twelve with Miss Spider as she looks for insect friends to play with.

Cesar Chavez Book

Cesar Chavez

  • Author : Richard Griswold del Castillo
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release Date : 1997-09-01
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 228
  • ISBN 10 : 0806129573
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Explores the growth and development of the farm labor organizer