America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation | 
so-soBoo! The subtitle is severely misleading. There may have been a blurb about Revolutionary Women but nothing more. There were some interesting tidbits but not anything that is really hidden to those that have read about the Revolutionary War. If you want to know some interesting trivia bits this is a shortish book, if you‘ve read more than 2 books about the RW you can pass on this one you already know what‘s in it.
Up next. The author in the first minutes has already mentioned Mr. Peabody and Sherman, so I‘m in. Also if you‘ve followed me for any length of time you know how much I love my founding women. You know the women that did so much for the founding of this country and yet are completely ignored, yeah those women they are badass and feisty and I love them so much.
so-soAlways interesting when you look at points in history and look at what influenced those points. In this case Kenneth Davis looks through the pioneer years and years and years before and shows us how they are all connected.
On December 21, 1734, their first son, Paul Revere, was born. Apprenticed to his father, Revere grew up in Boston‘s boisterous North End, receiving a basic education but acquiring a lifelong love of reading.
On December 21, 1734, their first son, Paul Revere, was born. Apprenticed to his father, Revere grew up in Boston‘s boisterous North End, receiving a basic education but acquiring a lifelong love of reading.
His inexperience prior to the revolution wouldn‘t have allowed the opportunities he had for just anyone. His 18th century networking skills though helped.
Interesting piece on Hannah Dustin and her escape and revenge against her captors.
Saw this book while on vacation at a museum bookstore. I always loved the stories not often told in history books so felt compelled to start reading this one.
“....history‘s pivotal themes-getting and keeping power. Whether it is the power of faith or force, the power of ideas or ideology, the power of propaganda or persuasion...”
I love to read the hidden stories of history. The stories beyond the stories taught in class. I picked this up when it first came out, as I was a fan of Davis' other works, but it languishes in a box unread. I'll get to it soon...someday... #hideandseek #SplashIntoSummerReads
I should probably invest in a mousepad...but America's Hidden History works just as well! I'm trying to prepare syllabi, but it is snowy and I just want to curl up with a book! #teachersoflitsy
The notion of Spaniards fighting Frenchmen in Florida four decades before England established its first permanent settlement in America, and half a century before the Pilgrims sailed, is an unexpected notion to those accustomed to the familiar legends of Jamestown and Plymouth.
so-soPosting to document my twentieth book completed for summer 2016 (it's still summer, according to the calendar). A kind of pedestrianly written general, secondary source type deal that was worth the $1.99 of iTunes credit and the new knowledge that Spanish soldiers slaughtered a colony of French Huguenot in Florida in the 1500s. What?
