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1) Countdown to independence: a revolution of ideas in England and her American colonies : 1760-1776
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Examines the people and events both in the American colonies and in Great Britain between 1760 and 1776 that led to the American Revolution.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
The first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
With eloquence equal to Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." Adams played a pivotal role not fully appreciated until now in the events leading up to the confrontation with the British. Believing that God willed a free American nation, he was among the first to call for independence....
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group call Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own members and turning the rest of its members into outlaws on...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
�2000
Language
English
Description
They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar bills and pocket change.
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