"Beautifully alive."-Wall Street Journal Winner of the 2022
Distinguished Book Award from The Society of Colonial Wars A tour
through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical
sites and their stories in America's founding. Obscure, well-known,
off-the-beaten path, and on busy city streets, here are taverns,
meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, homes which all
combine to define our country-the places where daring people forged
a revolution. There is always something new to be found in
America's past that also brings greater clarity to our present and
the future we choose to make as a nation. Author-artist Adam Van
Doren traveled from Maine to Georgia in that spirit. There are
thirty-seven landmarks included, with fifteen additional locations
noted in brief. From the Bunker Hill monument in Massachusetts to
the Camden Battlefield Site in South Carolina, this is a tour of an
American cultural landscape with a curious, perceptive, and
insightful guide. The reader steps inside cabins at Valley Forge
where nearly two thousand soldiers perished during a cruel winter,
meets the chef at Philadelphia's City Tavern where the menu is
based on 18th century fare, seeks out the Swamp Fox in Georgia,
visits the homes of Alexander Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, the
Joseph Webb House on the Connecticut River where French general
Rochambeau made plans with Washington, and much more. An
unvarnished view, we also see Philipsburg Manor, in Sleepy Hollow,
New York, where Blacks were once held as slaves to work in the
Hudson River Valley. For armchair travelers and anyone fascinated
by Americana, Van Doren (The House Tells the Story: Homes of the
American Presidents) has created an unforgettable journey through
history. We see the Founders-both their stunning achievements and
chilling moral failures-where they lived, fought, and agreed on a
common purpose, to create a nation whose future-and legacy-is
continually evolving.
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