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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In spare, gripping language, author-illustrator Timothy Decker describes the tense, violent confrontation between Boston's angry colonists and soldiers, as well as the legal aftermath that underscored the rule of law. Illustrated in a graphic-fiction style.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing...
3) John Adams under fire: the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams' finest hour.'--Kirkus Reviews. Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre The New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Last Trial and host of LivePD Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history. History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"A dramatic untold 'people's history' of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution"--
The story of the Boston Massacre-when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death-is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original...
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