{"title":"Alfred F. Young","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"whose-american-revolution-was-it-historians-interpret-the-founding-paperback","title":"Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted the Revolution for our own time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of the period's historiography and its historians, Whose American Revolution Was It? is an essential reference for anyone studying early American history. The first section, by Alfred F. Young, begins in 1925 with historian J. Franklin Jameson and takes the reader through the successive schools of interpretation up to the 1990s. The second section, by Gregory H. Nobles, focuses primarily on the ways present-day historians have expanded our understanding of the broader social history of the Revolution, bringing onto the stage farmers and artisans, who made up the majority of white men, as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and women of all social classes.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366207750367,"sku":"9780814797112","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/N8tFj0k3Lk9780814797112.webp?v=1789087986"},{"product_id":"masquerade-the-life-and-times-of-deborah-sampson-continental-soldier-paperback","title":"Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eMasquerade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeborah 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eDeborah 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368490270943,"sku":"9780679761853","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/o-pl-lxk6W9780679761853.webp?v=1789128525"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alfred-f-young.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}