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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution

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Overview

Syllabus

  • 01: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary Times
  • 02: Down and Out in Colonial America
  • 03: Jane Mecom: Franklin’s Struggling Sister
  • 04: Boycotting the Townshend Taxes
  • 05: Ebenezer Mackintosh: Stamp Act Protestor
  • 06: The Occupation of Boston
  • 07: Crispus Attucks: The Massacre’s Martyr
  • 08: Sailors, Shoemakers, Crowds, and Class
  • 09: George Hewes: Tea Party Captain
  • 10: Forging a Common Cause in the Colonies
  • 11: Tom Paine: Immigrant Pamphleteer
  • 12: Colonial Soldiering Life
  • 13: Deborah Sampson: Woman Soldier
  • 14: War on the American Home Front
  • 15: Mary Silliman: Soldier’s Wife
  • 16: The Revolution in Indian Country
  • 17: Molly Brant: Native Power Broker
  • 18: The African American Revolution
  • 19: Thomas Jeremiah: Free Black Pilot
  • 20: The Price of Loyalism
  • 21: Harry Washington: Runaway Rebel
  • 22: An American Workers’ Revolution
  • 23: Daniel Shays: Veteran Turned Rebel
  • 24: An American Sexual Revolution
  • 25: Martha Ballard: A Midwife’s Tale
  • 26: An American Racial Revolution
  • 27: Richard Allen: Freedom’s Prophet
  • 28: The Unfinished Revolution
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Richard Bell

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