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Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...

"A view of the American Revolution"--Dust jacket

To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological...

Liberty! is based upon the PBS series LIBERTY! The American Revolution, a production of KCTA, Minneapolis/St. Paul, in association with Middlemarch Films, Muffie Meyer, and Ellen Hovde, Producer/Directors.

Here is an account of the ordinary foot soldier's life under General Washington during the Revolutionary War. Relying on sources such as diaries, letters, and journals, Bolton provides a detailed description of such topics as weapons and training, camp duties and diversions, hospitals and prison ships, and army maneuvers.