The Razing of Tinton Falls: Voices from the American Revolution
The Razing of Tinton Falls: Voices from the American Revolution

Author: Michael S. Adelberg

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-06-08

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1614238219

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On June 10, 1779, a Loyalist raiding party landed on the shore of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and advanced unnoticed on the town of Tinton Falls. It captured five leading Patriots and plundered many others. Homes and barns were burned to the ground; stores were looted and livestock driven off. The local militia scattered. That afternoon, as the raiders loaded their barges, a reinforced militia engaged the Loyalists in a battle that climaxed with vicious hand-to-hand combat. Historian Michael Adelberg brings the Tinton Falls raid to life, re-creating the day in the voices of ten narrators based on real people--a child of a Revolutionary leader, a Loyalist officer, a militiaman, a pacifist, a businesswoman and many others--each of whom experienced the day very differently.

Reporting the Revolution
Reporting the Revolution

Author: Todd Andrlik

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1402269684

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"This is 'you are there' history at its best...[Reporting the Revolutionary War] lets us see and feel how events unfolded for the people who lived them."—American History For the colonists of the new world, the years of the American Revolution were a time of upheaval and rebellion. History boils it down to a few key events and has embodied it with a handful of legendary personalities. But the reality of the time was that everyday people witnessed thousands of little moments blaze into an epic conflict-for more than twenty years. Now, for the first time, experience the sparks of revolution the way the colonists did—in their very own town newspapers and broadsheets. Reporting the Revolutionary War is a stunning collection of primary sources, sprinkled with modern analysis from 37 historians. Featuring Patriot and Loyalist eyewitness accounts from newspapers printed on both sides of the Atlantic, readers will experience the revolution as it happened with the same immediacy and uncertainty of the colonists. The American newspapers of the eighteenth century fanned the flames of rebellion, igniting the ideas of patriotism and liberty among average citizens who had never before been so strongly united. Within the papers, you'll also read the private correspondence and battlefield letters of the rebels and patriots who grabbed the attention of each and every colonist and pushed them to fight for freedom and change. From one of America's leading Revolutionary War newspaper archivists, Todd Andrlik, and guided by scores of historians and experts, Reporting the Revolutionary War brings you into the homes of Americans and lets you see through their eyes the tinderbox of war as it explodes. "The story of the battle for independence unlike any version that has been told." —Military Review

Words that Make New Jersey History
Words that Make New Jersey History

Author: Howard L. Green

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780813521138

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Here isa unique collection of documents that spans the history of New Jersey, from the arrival of Dutch traders in the 1600s to the present. The materials touch on a range of subjects such as slavery and abolitionism, the labor movement, race and ethnic relations, and economic and environmental issues. The documents include letters, journals, pamphlets, petitions, artwork, and songs created not only by those who exercised power, but also by men and women of more humble station. Their lively accounts range from descriptions of Native Americans in the seventeenth century to Bruce Springsteen's lament about a declining factory town. New to this expanded edition is the text of former governor James McGreevey's "I am a Gay American" speech, as well as entries about the Abbott v. Burke court ruling mandating that New Jersey equalize funding of urban and suburban schools districts, sprawl and its effects on water supply, and the state's economic boom in the 1990s. A balanced survey of New Jersey's history in the context of a changing nation, this book is ideal for general readers who want to explore the primary sources of the state's past, and to U.S. history students at the high school and college levels.

Orators of the American Revolution
Orators of the American Revolution

Author: Elias Lyman Magoon

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021620033

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This book is a collection of speeches and writings by the great orators of the American Revolution, including Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, among others. It offers important insights into the political and philosophical ideals that drove the revolution and helped to shape the national identity of the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North
Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North

Author: Graham Russell Hodges

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780945612513

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Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural north. This unique social history addresses many long held assumptions about the experience of slavery and emancipation outside the south. For example, by tracing the process by which whites maintained "a durable architecture of oppression" and a rigid racial hierarchy, it challenges the notions that slavery was milder and that racial boundaries were more permeable in the north. Monmouth County, New Jersey, because of its rich African American heritage and equally well-preserved historical record, provides an outstanding opportunity to study the rural life of an entire community over the course of two centuries. Hodges weaves an intricate pattern of life and death, work and worship, from the earliest settlement to the end of the Civil War.

Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride

Author: Marsha Amstel

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780439276726

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The story of Sybil Ludington's ride on horseback to rouse American soldiers to fight against the British who were attacking Danbury, Connecticut during the American Revolution.

Ordinary People In The Age Of The American Revolution
Ordinary People In The Age Of The American Revolution

Author: Johnson Zitzmann

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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Ordinary people overcoming extraordinary odds. It is the test and true measure of as people, and at no time was the test so cruel or measure so hard to obtain than in the Wyoming Valley during the American Revolutionary War. This is the true story of a people overcoming impossible odds and in the end emerging victorious, cherishing virtues such as faith and hope, which in turn help forge them and form that incredible spirit, the American spirit. Nowhere is a nation's virtues more refined than in its beginnings. This story is an insight into that spirit, that nation, for these people, though recently beaten and driven from the beloved homes they cut out of the heart of an unforgiving wilderness, return and stand strong again against the same enemies, possessed of resiliency and spirit which will, in turn, settle and conquer a continent. Come hear of their struggles and from it gain an understanding of a nation, formed from facing impossible struggles and overcoming impossible odds. Come read this story, this story of America.