"Course No. 30240"--Container. 28 lectures (30 min. each). Course guidebook includes professor biography, course scope, lecture guides, and bibliography. Great Courses Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook (pages 221-226). Lecturer, Richard Bell, University of Maryland, College Park.
Contents:
Disc 4. The unfinished Revolution. Down and out in Colinial America -- Jane Mecom: Franklin's struggling sister -- Boycotting the Townshend Taxes -- Ebenezer Mackintosh: Stamp Act protestor -- The occupation of Boston -- Crispus Attucks: the Massacre's martyr -- Disc 2. Sailors, shoemakers, crowds, and class -- George Hewes: Tea Party captain -- Forging a common cause in the colonies -- Tom Paine: immigrant pamphleteer -- Colonial soldiering life -- Deborah Sampson: woman soldier -- War on the American home front -- Disc 3. Mary Silliman: soldier's wife -- The Revolution in Indian Country -- Molly Brant: native power broker -- The African American Revolution -- Thomas Jeremiah: free black pilot -- The price of loyalism -- Harry Washington: runaway rebel -- Disc 4. An American worker's Revolution -- Daniel Shays: veteran turned rebel -- An American sexual revolution -- Martha Ballard: a midwife's tale -- An American racial revolution -- Richard Allen: freedom's prophet -- The unfinished Revolution.
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