Ordinary Americans in the Revolution

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Course Description

Overview

<p>Meet the everyday people who made the American Revolution happen.</p>

Syllabus

By This Professor
01: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary Times
02: Down and Out in Colonial America
03: Jane Mecom: Franklin’s Struggling Sister
04: Boycotting the Townshend Taxes
05: Ebenezer Mackintosh: Stamp Act Protestor
06: The Occupation of Boston
07: Crispus Attucks: The Massacre’s Martyr
08: Sailors, Shoemakers, Crowds, and Class
09: George Hewes: Tea Party Captain
10: Forging a Common Cause in the Colonies
11: Tom Paine: Immigrant Pamphleteer
12: Colonial Soldiering Life
13: Deborah Sampson: Woman Soldier
14: War on the American Home Front
15: Mary Silliman: Soldier’s Wife
16: The Revolution in Indian Country
17: Molly Brant: Native Power Broker
18: The African American Revolution
19: Thomas Jeremiah: Free Black Pilot
20: The Price of Loyalism
21: Harry Washington: Runaway Rebel
22: An American Workers’ Revolution
23: Daniel Shays: Veteran Turned Rebel
24: An American Sexual Revolution
25: Martha Ballard: A Midwife’s Tale
26: An American Racial Revolution
27: Richard Allen: Freedom’s Prophet
28: The Unfinished Revolution

Taught by

Richard Bell

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