Bored Feet now publishes this classic, award-winning people's history of California's North Coast, an evocative blend of oral history and narrative. These stories resonate with truth. As the subtitle says Being the true story of Indians, deer, homesteaders, potatoes, loggers, trees, fishermen, salmon, and other living things in the back woods of Northern California. Ray Raphael wrote a new preface for this 33rd anniversary edition of his first book, updating readers on some of the changes in the past one-third century.

An Everyday History of Somewhere: Being the True Story of Indians, Deer, Homesteaders, Potatoes, Loggers, Trees, Fishersmen, Salmon & Other Living Things in Backwoods of Northern Calif

History

Ray Raphael

Americas

Bored Feet Pubns

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Patrick Henry never said, "Give me liberty or give me death!" In fact, no record exists of what he said in his powerful call to arms of March 23, 1775. And Molly Pitcher never took her husband's place at a cannon after he fell at the Battle of Monmouth. Historian Raphael dissects these and 11 other myths of the American Revolution to uncover the truth of these famous events and the significance of their conversion into myth. These tales, argues Raphael, represent 19th-century ideals of "romantic individualism" more than the communitarian ideals of the revolutionary era. Raphael (A People's History of the American Revolution) continues in his populist vein by arguing that these myths, rather than encouraging patriotism and heroism, actually "take away our power," leaving us "in awe of superhuman stars" like Washington or Jefferson and "discouraging ordinary citizens from acting on their own behalf." This is arguable, but advocates of history as seen from below will find the author's point of view appealing. And all students of American history will find Raphael's correction of the historical record instructive and enjoyable. Illus. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Founding Myths

The New Press

An illegitimate child, born in the Caribbean, who arrived in America as a near-penniless teenager, Alexander Hamilton did not seem to have much in common with the rest of the Founding Fathers. However, after serving in the Revolution as an artillery officer and aide to George Washington, Hamilton became one of the foremost architects of the new United States of America. This book explores how his strong personality, quicksilver intellect and taste for combat played into the contentious arguments over what kind of country the young republic would become. The musical - winner of 11 Tony Awards - comes to London's Victoria Palace Theatre in November 2017.

Hamilton: Founding Father

Marie Raphael

Sterling Publishing Co.,Inc

A People’s History of the American Revolution

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Founders The People Who Brought You A Nation

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Telling the history of the American Revolution from the often-overlooked standpoint of its everyday participants, this is an involving narrative of the wartime experience designed to convey the best of modern scholarship to a general reading audience. Our understanding of the origins and consequences of the American war with Britain has now been greatly expanded by examining previously marginalized stories, those of the common people, slave and free who made up the majority of pre-revolutionary America. A broad array of diaries and other first person accounts are woven into the narrative. The focus moves on from leaders like Washington and Jefferson to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, the men and boys who did the fighting and the women who endured it.

The American Revolution: A People's History

Profile Books, Ltd.

Two Peoples, One Place

Freeman House

Humboldt County Historical Society

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