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The Boston Massacre: A Family History
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The Boston Massacre

By Serena Zabin ,

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A Girl Called Samson
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A Girl Called Samson

By Amy Harmon ,

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The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
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The Sewing Girl's Tale

By John Wood Sweet ,

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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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Hero of Two Worlds

By Mike Duncan ,

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The Fate of the Day
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The Fate of the Day

By Rick Atkinson ,

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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
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1774

By Mary Beth Norton ,

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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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Women in White Coats

By Olivia Campbell ,

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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The Rediscovery of America

By Ned Blackhawk ,

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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
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Indigenous Continent

By Pekka Hämäläinen ,

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
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The Revolutionary

By Stacy Schiff ,

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Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben
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Washington's Gay General

By Josh Trujillo , Levi Hastings (illustrator) ,

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The Year of Living Constitutionally
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The Year of Living Constitutionally

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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
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The Pursuit of Happiness

By Jeffrey Rosen ,

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One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England
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One Small Candle

By Francis J. Bremer ,

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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
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The Cabinet

By Lindsay M. Chervinsky ,

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George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
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George Washington

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The Founding Mothers of the United States (a True Book)
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The Founding Mothers of the United States (a True Book)

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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
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Liberty Is Sweet

By Woody Holton ,

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Resisting Independence
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Resisting Independence

By Brad A. Jones ,

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American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
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American Honor

By Craig Bruce Smith ,

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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
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Wicked Flesh

By Jessica Marie Johnson ,

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
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The Cause

By Joseph J. Ellis ,

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Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance
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Entrepôt of Revolutions

By Manuel Covo ,

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Action Presidents: George Washington!
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Action Presidents

By Fred Van Lente , Ryan Dunlavey (illustrator) ,

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Her Name Was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence
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Her Name Was Mary Katharine

By Ella Schwartz , Dow Phumiruk (illustrator) ,

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Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams
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Most Wanted

By Sarah Jane Marsh , Edwin Fotheringham (illustrator) ,

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Anna Strong: A Spy During the American Revolution
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Anna Strong

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The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America
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The Howe Dynasty

By Julie Flavell ,

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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon

By Bill McKibben ,

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The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
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The Indispensables

By Patrick K O'Donnell ,

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The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire
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The King's Peace

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Rebels at Sea

By Eric Jay Dolin ,

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A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
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A View from Abroad

By Jeanne E. Abrams ,

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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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First Principles

By Thomas E Ricks ,

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A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic
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A Revolutionary Friendship

By Francis D. Cogliano ,

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Who's Your Founding Father?: One Man's Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence
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Who's Your Founding Father?

By David Fleming ,

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God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
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God Save Benedict Arnold

By Jack Kelly ,

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The Compleat Victory
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The Compleat Victory

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By Force of Arms: An Isaac Biddlecomb Novel
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By Force of Arms

By James L. Nelson ,

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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
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American Slavers

By Sean M. Kelley ,

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Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade
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Dark Voyage

By Christian M. McBurney ,

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Revolutionary Roads
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Revolutionary Roads

By Bob Thompson ,

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The Permanent Resident
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The Permanent Resident

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We the People
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We the People

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Hessians
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Hessians

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George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring
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George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring

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