Early American Party System

Alfred F. Young

Leonard W. Levy

Charles A. Beard

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

John R. Howe Jr.

Vernon Louis Parrington

Manning J. Dauer

Bray Hammond

David H. Fischer

Sidney H. Aronson

Harper&Row

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier

In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

Historical

Beacon Press

Blackstone Publishing

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