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Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News

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This is ‘you are there’ history at its best…[Reporting the Revolutionary War] lets us see and feel how events unfolded for the people who lived them.”―American History

For the colonists of the new world, the years of the American Revolution were a time of upheaval and rebel. History boils it down to a couple of key events and has embodied it with a handful of legendary personalities. But the reality of the time was once that on a regular basis people witnessed thousands of little moments blaze into an epic conflict-for more than twenty years. Now, for the first time, experience the sparks of revolution the way the colonists did―in their very own town newspapers and broadsheets. Reporting the Revolutionary War is a stunning number of primary sources, sprinkled with brand new analysis from 37 historians. Featuring Patriot and Loyalist eyewitness accounts from newspapers printed on both sides of the Atlantic, readers will experience the revolution as it happened with the same immediacy and uncertainty of the colonists.

The American newspapers of the eighteenth century fanned the flames of rebel, igniting the ideas of patriotism and liberty among average citizens who had never before been so strongly united. Within the papers, you’ll be able to also read the private correspondence and battlefield letters of the rebels and patriots who grabbed the attention of every colonist and pushed them to fight for freedom and change. From one of The usa’s leading Revolutionary War newspaper archivists, Todd Andrlik, and guided by scores of historians and experts, Reporting the Revolutionary War brings you into the homes of Americans and allows you to see through their eyes the tinderbox of war as it explodes.

“The story of the battle for independence unlike any version that has been told.” ―Military Review

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