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  • Hidden History of Old Lyme, Lyme & East Lyme

    by Jim Lampos, Michaelle Pearson ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Old Lyme, Lyme and East Lyme were once one town, founded in the 1600s. Known for early innovations in industry, government and education, these towns also share a wealth of overlooked history. Discover the taverns where Patriots met during the Revolution, the Diving Horses at the Golden Spur Amusement Park and the Spiritualist Camp that has held séances since 1882. Meet the smuggler captain who ... Read more

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  • Revolution in the Lymes

    From the New Lights to the Sons of Liberty

    by Jim Lampos, Michaelle Pearson ...
    Series series
    The Revolutionary War in the Lymes started as a rebellion of ideas. From its origins in the Cromwellian Saybrook Colony, Lyme (today's Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme and Salem) prospered under the free hand of self-governance and spurned King George III's efforts to rein in the wayward colonies. In 1765, Reverend Stephen Johnson wrote incendiary missives against the Stamp Act. A few years later, the ... Read more

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  • Remarkable Women of Old Lyme

    by Jim Lampos, Michaelle Pearson ...
    Series series American Heritage
    Old Lyme's illustrious history owes much to innovative women. Suffragist Katharine Ludington was co-founder of the League of Women Voters. In the 1830s, Phoebe Griffin Noyes started a school for art and general subjects. At the turn of the twentieth century, Florence Griswold welcomed the artists of the Lyme Art Colony by creating the "Birthplace of American Impressionism." By World War II, Teddy ... Read more

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    George Washington

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    National BestsellerTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man ... Read more

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  • The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States

    Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history: the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, along with the Bill of Rights and successive constitutional amendments.With an introduction by Pauline Maier, a renowned scholar of the American Revolution.The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the ... Read more

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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    by Alfred F. Young ...
    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... Read more

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  • Life of George Washington

    by John Marshall, William Roscoe Thayer, Henry Cabot Lodge ...
    The classic five-volume biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, plus the two-volume biography by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, plus the one-volume biography by Thayer. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 – December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the ... Read more

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  • Understanding Presidential Elections and The Constitution

    Simply Put: Civics Lessons, #5

    by Catherine McGrew Jaime ...
    Series Book 5 - Simply Put: Civics Lessons
    As we move closer to a presidential election we often start to pay closer attention to the act of electing a president - the primaries and caucuses and then the electoral college.But how did we come to this point? What is the constitutional background of the Executive Branch? What did the founders consider when they put this into place over two hundred years ago, and what were they trying to avoid ... Read more

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  • American Legends: The Boston Tea Party

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Discusses the myths and legends of the Tea Party in an attempt to separate fact from fiction. Did the Tea Partiers dress up as Mohawks? Did Sam Adams lead the Tea Party?*Includes contemporary accounts of the Tea Party in the newspapers and accounts written by those claiming to have participated. *Discusses some of the aspects of the Tea Party that remain unclear"The people finding all their ... Read more

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  • Nathan Hale

    The Life and Death of America's First Spy

    by M. William Phelps ...
    Although famous for his purported last words—“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”—few people know the real Nathan Hale. M. William Phelps brings into focus the life of this famed patriot and first spy of the American Revolution, charting Hale’s rural childhood, his education at Yale, and his work as a schoolteacher. Like many young Americans, he was soon drawn into the ... Read more

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  • Master Thieves

    The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist

    by Stephen Kurkjian ...
    The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, and others, its security was cheap, mismanaged, and out of date. And now, it ... Read more

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  • Spies in Revolutionary Rhode Island

    by Christian M McBurney ...
    A history of espionage in Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War.Espionage played a vital role during the American Revolution in Rhode Island. The British and Americans each employed spies to discover the secrets, plans and positions of their enemy. Continental navy lieutenant John Trevett dressed as an ordinary sailor, grew out his beard and went from tavern to tavern in Newport gathering ... Read more

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