Ordinary Americans in the Revolution

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

• 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