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