Leo T. reviewed on + 1775 more book reviews
This is part of the six book series 'Sourcebooks on Colonial America' aimed at providing collateral reading for junior and senior high school history students. The editorial team worked with the assets of the Library of Congress to share with readers contemporary engravings of landscapes, maps, people, and buildings. Each is carefully explained and in later times the printed matter is shown. For example, there are two pages on the Boston Massacre. A long paragraph explains the event and then we see the famous front page of The Massachusetts Spy (July 7, 1774) with the crudely drawn coffins of the murdered. I noted that the 1754 cartoon of the snake 'Join or Die' is used in the masthead.
I obtained this as an add on to an order for the bookshelf of the old soldiers' home. It will serve well for someone with time to kill with light reading reminding them of the events leading to the Revolutionary War.
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I obtained this as an add on to an order for the bookshelf of the old soldiers' home. It will serve well for someone with time to kill with light reading reminding them of the events leading to the Revolutionary War.
Index.
