The American Revolution offers countless remarkable stories of ordinary citizens doing extraordinary things—from the call for independence in 1776 Philadelphia to the improbable surrender at Yorktown ...

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While Perl-Rosenthal sees the ideals of the Revolution at the center of the American story, Yii-Jan Lin puts the Book of ...