This is the most wonderful site for teaching the American Revolution. We will be going to Gilder Lehrman Institute this summer to study. Check it out and leave a comment.
http://www.historynow.org/09_2009/index.html
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Favorite History Books
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
- American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
- American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
- Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
- Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
- From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
- Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
- Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
- Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
- Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
- Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
- The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
- The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
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