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This excerpt from Carol Berkin shows that while women different experiences of the American Revolution, they each played a unique role in its efforts.

Read an excerpt from Joseph Plumb Martins memoir describing leaving the safety of home for his first deployment for the American Revolution in 1776.

This excerpt from Frances H. Kennedy describes more than 100 landmarks from the American Revolution in the chronology of their importance to the war.

Read an excerpt from Clare A. Lyons' book, Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender & Power in the Age Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830.

Read this excerpt from Maureen Taylor’s The Last Muster to learn more about three veterans of the American Revolution—Nathaniel Ames, Agrippa Hull, and Ezra Green.

Read an excerpt from Oscar E. Gilbert and Catherine R. Gilbert's book, True for the Cause of Liberty: The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution.

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

Read excerpts from Don Brown's Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution as well as Phillip Hamilton's The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox.

View our list of 2020 Summer Reading Books about the American Revolutionary War to share stories of history with children of all ages!

Read an excerpt from Eric Jay Dolin's book, Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution.