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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Paul Revere's Ride	David Hackett Fischer	Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American his- tory—yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremos…	OL11285672W
The Revolutionary War	Virginia Schomp	Describes the Revolutionary War through the letters of the people who fought it, including both British and Americans, Loyalists and Patriots, women, and Native Americans.	OL15039670W
America's first traitor	Allison Stark Draper	Briefly describes the military exploits of Benedict Arnold, first for the Americans and later for the British.	OL15042778W
The South Carolina Colony	Dennis B. Fradin	Describes the history and people of South Carolina from its earliest settlements to statehood in 1788.	OL15050250W
The horse-riding adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War messenger	Amanda Doering Tourville	In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and bur…	OL15520777W
Black heroes of the American Revolution	Burke Davis	An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence.	OL16007W
The turncoat	Donna Thorland	Renegades of the American Revolution #1 They are lovers on opposite sides of a brutal war, with everything at stake and no possibility of retreat. They can trust no one—especially not each other. …	OL16664819W
All for Liberty [videorecording]	Clarence Felder	All for Liberty is based on the true story of Captain Henry Felder whose determination to resist tyranny led to his long bitter fight against the British Empire during America's War for Independence…	OL16802085W
An Empire On the Edge	Nick Bunker	This book provides a British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution. It traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and econo…	OL17318115W
American tempest	Unger, Harlow G.	From the author of The Last Founding Father, this book is an in-depth study of the Boston Tea Party and how it defined the course of American history. It takes a critical look at the famed incident a…	OL17738794W
Life of a soldier in Washington's army	Gail B. Stewart	Discusses the training, organization, diversity, fighting and survival skills, daily routine, diseases, fears, and morale of the first army of the United States.	OL17835856W
The rescue begins in Delaware	Cheri Pray Earl	Twins George and Gracie travel back in a time machine to Delaware during the Revolutionary War, trying to rescue their stranded parents and in the process they help Caesar Rodney to cast Delaware's c…	OL17884452W
The American Revolution	Gail B. Stewart	Profiles people involved in the Revolutionary War as soldiers, politicians, or in other capacities, including King George II, Benedict Arnold, and Mary Hays McCauly (Molly Pitcher).	OL17928503W
American Revolution	Linda Schmittroth	Profiles sixty men and women who were key players on the British or American side of the American Revolution, from John Adams, who became the second president, to Eliza Wilkinson, who wrote of the da…	OL18024365W
Band of giants	Jack Kelly	Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less famil…	OL19984112W
The Hamilton affair	Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman	Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair …	OL20035176W
George Washington's secret spy war	John A. Nagy	The untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day. Author John A. Nagy has become the nation's leading e…	OL20037677W
Of arms and artists	Paul J. Staiti	A "chronicle of the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic...Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull,…	OL20039617W
Bernardo de Gálvez	Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia	A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785-86), Bernardo de Gálvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms. Extensively researched…	OL20942115W
I have not yet begun to fight	Elaine Marie Alphin	Describes the life of John Paul Jones, who served in America's navy during the Revolutionary War and is remembered for saying, "I have not yet begun to fight."	OL2648220W