Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

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This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time. Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, readers get the largely untold story of the American Revolution: the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles. This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.

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This is a thorough, well-explained introduction to life in the revolutionary era using the primary documents of the period. Ideal for beginning students with little background in historical research, and for teachers or instructors looking for research topics. * Library Journal *
Design aspects facilitate use: large, bold fonts delineate sections within each chapter, and tangential information appears in shaded boxes. Challenging words appear in bold within the primary sources and are defined in adjacent boxes. Though the book offers only three black-and-white document reproductions, that paucity does not diminish the overall high quality of its organization and content. * School Library Journal *
Highly recommended as a logical selection for middle and high school history collections. * Booklist *
Voices of Revolutionary America is a strongly recommended pick for any American history collection. * Midwest Book Review *

Author Bio

Carol Sue Humphrey, PhD, is professor of history at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK.