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N.-Y.: Facts On File, 2007. - 481 p. ISBN: 978-0-8160-6482-3 While the American Revolution officially began in Lexington, Massachusetts, in April 1775, the seeds of rebellion had been sown for decades. The struggle for representation in the British Parliament left many colonists eager to seek out independence. After "the shot heard 'round the world," loyalty to Great Britain was seen as treachery. As political philosophers such as Benjamin Frank...

Purdue University Press, 2009 157 pages Contents Acknowledgments This book describes what Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., did to help bring about the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust. It is neither a biography of DuBois nor a comprehensive history of the War Refugee Board, the U.S. government rescue agency that he helped bring into existence and of which he was a leader. Those are books that remain to be written. DuBois’s own memoir, The Devil’s Chemist...

M.E. Sharpe, 2008. - 279 pages. For any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing, this book is ideal. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on personalized history presented through engaging biographies of figures from 1865 to the present. This book tells the history of the United States through the story of its inhabitants. As you turn the pages, an argumentative and yet cooperative...

USA: Oxford University Press, 1990 - 240 p. ISBN10: 0195056760 ISBN13: 9780195056761 (eng) Fostering the "pursuit of happiness" was an avowed purpose of the American Revolution, but what was the phrase to mean in practice? How would the new society being created achieve what Enlightenment egalitarians called the "common good"? In this dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache, Jeffery A. Smith examines the care...