Read the Revolution

Read an excerpt from Kari Winter's 2004 edited edition of The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace by Jeffrey Brace as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq. (1810).

Read an excerpt of Serena Zabin's The Boston Massacre: A Family History.

Read an excerpt from Rick Atkinson's book, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777.

This excerpt from Steven Park tells how a group of colonial protestors captured and burned a British naval schooner a year before the Boston Tea Party.

This excerpt from Robert Parkinson explores the creation of a common cause to rally colonists from South Carolina to Massachusetts against a common enemy.

Read an excerpt from Kevin J. Weddle's The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution.

This excerpt from Gerald Horne demonstrates how the Revolution reinvigorated the slave trade and subsequently bore a counter-revolution of slavery.

Read an excerpt from Tiya Miles' recent book, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.

In this excerpt from military historian William H. Hallahan he recounts April 19, 1775, the Day the American Revolution Began.

This excerpt by David Armitage examines how the Declaration of Independence became a political and philosophical model for nations across the globe.