Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War

4th grade - 8th graders - Bob Rick explains the American Revolution with 100 pages or less. Half of them are pictures. Each spread contains a separate theme, with one page of text and the sidebar "Quick Fact" facing the entire page. Topics include the origins of conflict, individual battles, the two generals, the continental meeting, loyalty, the role of women. Including maps of two battles and colonial maps, mainly illustrations of prints of the era and illustrations of paintings of events described later. It shows all battle locations described in the text. This title is comparable to Lisa Frederiksen Bohannon's The American Revolution (Lerner, 2003) and Susan Provost Beller's The Revolutionary War (Benchmark, 2001). Two small sophistications: The heading of the picture shows that the surrender of John Burgoyne is George Washington and not Horatio Gates (although it is easy to see how this error was done in rendering). The sidebar shows that Liberty Bell was the last stage of 1846. It was the last accusation, but it has been ringing since then. After all, this title is a good choice for both the regular author and the author of the report. -Elaine Fort Weischedel, Millbury Public Library, MA

Gram 5-8. Bobrick, author of "The Angel of Cyclone: ​​The Victory of the American Revolution" (1997), is currently speaking to young audiences. Among the series of 2 page spreads, this large version explains important individuals and discusses the progress of revolutionary war. Normally, the left page contains several paragraph texts, sidebar "Fast Facts", and vignettes. There are large pictures related to the theme on the spread page. In color printing, it is from various times, but most of the illustrations are time painting and prints. In the case of a large map with terrain and force movement in particular, students will find the demonstration of this book's fight useful. This book does not include notes and quotation marks, but also includes vocabulary, bibliography, list of recommended web sites with annotations, and newspaper timeline. The highly illustrated format leaves a little room for detailed discussion, but the student will find a well-organized, well-written war introduction to the book. Caroline Ferrand

Bosen, Boten. Fight for freedom: American Revolutionary War. 2004. 96p Athens gram 4 or more Attractive format draws your attention from the beginning. Each page contains themes such as rustic facts describing people, places and events surrounding the American Revolutionary War, descriptive texts, and archival art photographs. Borotine, Norman. The Civil War A to Z: Guide for young readers with over 100 people, places and important points. 2002. 148 p. Darden Gram 5 or more Understanding history is a smart way! Bolotin's idea of ​​approaching the American civil war history in this way provides a brief summary of people, events, and things. Many photos and illustrations support text

There is a big overlap between the American Revolutionary War and the events that led to the civil war. For example, African-American slaves often compete with one another in the revolution, expecting to acquire freedom during the civil war and to pick up weapons again for the same reason. Even before the Revolutionary War, in 1773 the Constitution, which had been seeking freedom through the legal system, was enacted and sometimes people in the north cast doubts on the future. The morality of slavery of that year. In other words, whether colonial freedom applies only to certain people or owners - the point of civil war - is intricately intertwined with the identity that they created for themselves when the settlers were separated from the UK It is.

Participating in the revolutionary war, Britain invited slaves and promised to fight with them. Of course, slaves should not only grab the opportunity to oppress oppressors, nor should they fight for freedom. At the end of the war, the British gave up their black soldiers and their devotion to freedom. But it is fair to say that when a slave arrived in New York which was the base of England at the time, the last British commander negotiated freedom. The list above is not fair to the atrocities committed by the United States to all people living in non white people. This list includes struggles for integrating schools, confiscation of land allocated to Caucasian, confinement of wetback, drug eradication, massive imprisonment, and numerous crimes against humanity, in the USA And not all abuse