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This film paints a portrait of ordinary colonists during the time of the American Revolution and demonstrates their loyalty to the Declaration of Independence and to American ideals of freedom and equality. Note: this historical recording may contain variations in audio and visual quality based on the limitations of the original source material.
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"Over the course of three centuries, American settlers spread throughout North America and beyond, driving out indigenous populations to establish exclusive and permanent homelands of their own. In doing so, they helped to create the richest and most powerful nation in human history, even as they caused the death and displacement of millions of people. This groundbreaking historical synthesis demonstrates that the United States is and has always been...
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"Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure [Karen Kupperman] shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work ... the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth."--Jacket.
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In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew European empires into local patterns...
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"Frederic Remington drew about 3,000 pictures between 1885 and 1909. He started out as an illustrator for Magazine Pieces. Mostly these were feature articles describing this new wester country of the wagon trains, the fur business or the Indian struggle. Thus, unwittingly, Remington became a pictorial historian. This flood of western scenes today lies sleeping int he back rooms of libraries and musty attics up and down the land...This book attempts...
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From the Dust Jacket: On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing grave doubts about their futures,...
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Before colonial Americans could declare independence, they had to undergo a change of heart. Beyond a desire to rebel against British mercantile and fiscal policies, they had to believe that they could stand up to the fully armed British soldier. This work uncovers one story of how the Americans found that confidence. On April 19, 1775, British raids on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge made history, but it was an episode nearly two months earlier...
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