Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Introduce young readers to the stakes, challenges, setbacks, and victories involved in the single most important event in our nation?s history, the American Revolution, with this approachable book from Kathleen Krull, a Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Find out what events led our young nation to go to war with Great Britain and how the Declaration of Independence, the document that continues to shape our civil...
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award!
Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American politics, Adams astutely forced Britain into coercive military measures that ultimately led to the irreversible split in the empire. His remarkable political...
Author
Language
English
Description
Where The Ideas for which We Stand came from.
In this incisively drawn book, Darren Staloff forcefully reminds us that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of the nation.
Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squire-each governed their public...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson addressed to King George III of England, the Declaration of Independence was a key document in shaping the course of American history and severing the colonies' ties to England. Young readers will learn about the events that led to the writing and creation of the Declaration of Independence, the effect it had on the colonists' lives, and why it is one of America's most significant symbols of liberty. Leveled,...
Author
Language
English
Description
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he has said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this exciting new book, full of groundbreaking original research, Henry Wiencek explores the Founding Father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life -- as Virginia planter, soldier, politician, president, and statesman.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request