Costello Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2019Īlthough the title here suggests a narrow study of material culture, this book is a rich examination of the process of memory-making, in this case, the struggle to shape the nation’s memory of its first president. Purchase Book The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President Matthew R.
Riveting and unforgettable, Stolen exposes a hidden history of fundamental importance to the history of race and slavery in the new republic. With efficiency, skill, and complete mastery of his subject, Bell shares the ordeal of the kidnapped children – their fears, their exile, and then their ultimate redemption as documented in the surviving record preserved in the papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. He traces the boys’ harrowing odyssey from Philadelphia to Virginia to Alabama.
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With Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, Richard Bell brings vivid new detail to what he identifies as “the reverse underground railroad” – the illicit networks that seized free African Americans and spirited them away to the rapidly expanding slave markets in the cotton south.īell relays this history through the story of five teenage boys tricked in to captivity on the docks of Philadelphia by a network of slave takers who operated from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home Richard Bell New York: 37Ink, 2019 This volume is, in short, a work to be reckoned with and one that will powerfully inform broader conversations on the importance and continued relevance of our national origins. George Washington looms large in this volume, and Atkinson’s portrait of his evolution as the vital leader of the revolutionary movement is as masterful as it gets. Above all, it movingly captures the humanity and inhumanity of the war’s varied combatants, challenging embedded mythologies along the way. Atkinson's stunning overture on King George III in 1773 sets the tone for the entirety of the volume, one that resounds with multiple perspectives and incorporates the richness of recent scholarship on free and enslaved African Americans, French Canadians, Native Americans, loyalists, and British combatants.Ītkinson moves beyond a mere narrative of the war’s battles and campaigns in America, as he unfolds a broader geographical and cultural fabric of the Revolutionary War. Army in World War II, and his experiences alongside David Petraeus in Iraq have afforded him broader insights onto the challenges faced by eighteenth-century armies. This volume embraces the lived experience of the war’s early years with all of its complexities, ironies, triumphs, and tragedies.Ītkinson undertook an enormous depth and breadth of archival research for this volume, and his mastery of the documentary evidence as well as recent historiography is all the more remarkable for a first foray into the American Revolution.
There is a newness, eloquence, and immediacy in Atkinson’s telling that surpasses any previous Revolutionary War narrative it conveys to the reader a sense of discovering the American Revolution for the very first time, in all of its sheer drama. The British are Coming is an exquisite masterpiece of history by one of the nation’s foremost writers and historians. The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 Rick Atkinson New York: Henry Holt, 2019 An Interview with 2020 Winner Rick Atkinson Brown, and David Preston, selected the finalists from a field of over 60 books. A distinguished jury comprised of notable scholars Carol Berkin, Christopher L.
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