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In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly…
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Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers? who fought for liberty and justice for all ? were slave owners?Through the powerful stories of five…
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Today is a state holiday in Vermont. August 16th marks Bennington Battle Day, a Revolutionary War clash that was actually fought in nearby New York.The…
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Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how this…
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Best-selling historian Nathaniel Philbrick once again takes readers deep into the American Revolution, leading them into battles and illuminating the…
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Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “the shot heard ’round the world,” but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has…
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In eighteenth-century America, information about a woman’s life and accomplishments was very difficult to discover, but some woman were avid letter…
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Sarah Vowell is the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. Her latest look at history is an insightful and…
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A prideful and unchanged narrative of the American Revolution pervades U.S. history. Serving as the event which established the nation’s sovereignty,…
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In The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always…