1775-1783

Examines the validity of the Articles of Confederation, the arguments regarding its provisions, and the reasons why the document had to be replaced with one more conducive to the new nation.

Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.

Presents the life story of Patrick Henry, the eighteenth-century orator best known for inspiring American colonists to rebel against England.

Statesman Benjamin Franklin recalls his life, from his youth as a rebellious runaway apprentice, to successful leader, printer and journalist, social and political reformer, scientist, and philosopher.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the colonies' break from Great Britain and the creation of a new government of the United States.

An account of the Articles of Confederation, which served as the constitution of the U.S.A. from the Revolutionary War to 1788.

Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.

Describes farm and village life, city life, soldier life, and the lives of women and African-Americans, free and slave, during the Revolutionary War; and also includes an annotated bibliography.

A biography of eighteenth-century printer, scientist, revolutionary, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin.

Presents a historical account of the twenty-eight years between the start of the War for Independence in 1775 and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, focusing on significant people and events in the founding of the American nation.