Star Spangled Reading
 812.54 H389m
The Miss Firecracker contest / by Beth Henley New York : Doubleday,
c1979, 1985.
813.52 L81r
Raintree County ...Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948.
Epic novel by Ross Lockridge that takes place on the Fourth of July
in 1892. Rent the video with Elizabeth Taylor in major role.
813.52 Ed5d
Drums along the Mohawk, by Walter D. Edmonds. Boston, Little, Brown,
and company, 1936.
The Revolutionary war and its effect on the settlers in the Mohawk
valley.
813.2 C78s
The spy by James Fenimore Cooper. With illus of contemporary scenes
and a foreword by Curtis Dahl. New York, Dodd, Mead [1946]
Story of a fearless spy for General Washington.
812.5 W68m
The music man. Book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson Story by
Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons [c1958]
973.3 Sp4s
The Spirit of '76, and other essays. New York, A.M. Kelley, 1966. By
distinquished historian Carl Becker, includes essays on freedom, politics,
the Constitution.
Also 342.73 B38d
The Declaration of independence; a study in the history of political
ideas, by Carl Becker.
973.1 B763s
The spirit of '76 : the growth of American patriotism before independence
/ Carl Bridenbaugh. New York : Oxford University Press, 1975. Historian
argues that the United States was already a nation before the Revolutionary
War.
Read one of the books by Daniel Boorstin, historian
and former Librarian of Congress.
917.3 B64b
The Americans: the national experience
917.3 B64e
America and the image of Europe: reflections on American thought.
973 B64e
The exploring spirit : America and the world, then and now
191.9 B64l
The lost world of Thomas Jefferson.
325.26 B43b 1993
Before the Mayflower : a history of black America / Lerone Bennett,
Jr.
Contributions of African-Americans in the Colonial and Revolutionary
periods in American History.
342.732 B67m
Miracle at Philadelphia; the story of the Constitutional Convention,
May to September, 1787. by Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Popular account of the Constitutional convention based on the notes
of James Madison.
973.46 J35 B7
Thomas Jefferson, an intimate history by Fawn M. Brodie. Controversial
psychobiography
917.303 Sch3b
The birth of the Nation; a portrait of the American people on the eve
of independence. With an introd. by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
973.31 W85ra
The radicalism of the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood. 1993 Pulitzer
Prize winner.
973.41 W27wi
Cincinnatus : George Washington and the Enlightenment / Garry Wills.
Biography that concentrates on Washington as a citizen-soldier.
973.35 T79f
The first salute : a view of the American Revolution / Barbara Tuchman.
973.33 H52r
Redcoats and rebels : the American Revolution through British eyes
/ Christopher Hibbert.
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