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This excerpt tells how a British decision to confiscate gunpowder from Williamsburg's magazine provoked outrage and action by the city's patriots.

Check out the 45 titles featured in our summer 2017 reading list for children and young adults.

Read an excerpt from Karen Cook Bell's book, Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America.

This excerpt from Cassandra Good shows how women gained political access, influence, and information through their male friends in political office.