The Legendary and Myth-making Process in Histories of the American Revolution
Author: Sydney George Fisher
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 36
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Author: Sydney George Fisher
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ray Raphael
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2014-07-04
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 159558949X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With the author’s trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposes the errors and inventions in America’s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere’s famous ride to Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech. For the seventy thousand readers who have been captivated by Raphael’s eye-opening accounts, history has never been the same. In this revised tenth-anniversary edition, Raphael revisits the original myths and explores their further evolution over the past decade, uncovering new stories and peeling back additional layers of misinformation. This new edition also examines the highly politicized debates over America’s past, as well as how school textbooks and popular histories often reinforce rather than correct historical mistakes. A book that “explores the truth behind the stories of the making of our nation” (National Public Radio), this revised edition of Founding Myths will be a welcome resource for anyone seeking to separate historical fact from fiction.
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0674076664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation’s ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital present concerns.
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 160618119X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norman James Knowles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780802079138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowing that the past is often written into present concerns, and that many groups in Ontario, both powerful and disempowered, have invoked the experience of the Loyalists, Knowles significantly revises earlier interpretations of the Loyalist tradition.
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0143112082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 10 essays from previously published articles, the author presents miniature portraits of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and others known as the founding fathers.
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 9781422372593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David C. Rapoport
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780415316514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes a chronological approach to provide a history of modern rebel or non-state terror. In addition to articles in academic journals the collection includes discussions, statements and government documents.
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780719018817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chief objective of this text is to provide a handy reference guide for teachers, students and researchers of modern European economic and social history. Since the bibliography covers only works written in the English language it will probably be of less use to the last named group, at least insofar as those within it are already seasoned researchers on a particular country or topic. However, it would have been quite impossible from the point of view of length to have included all the literature in foreign languages, while to have done so would have defeated the essential aim of the volume, namely that of providing a reasonably convenient guide for those who teach and study the subject but who are not primarily specialists in the field.
Author: John Woolf Jordan
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 518
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