Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time.

Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, readers get the largely untold story of the American Revolution: the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles.

This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.

Author: Carol Sue Humphrey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/23/2011
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780313377327

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2011 pg. 108
School Library Journal 10/01/2011 pg. 88
Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 50
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 39

About the Author

Carol Sue Humphrey, PhD, is professor of history at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK.