Washoe County Library System

Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.

Rare book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, are on the trail of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. Notes in its margin spell out in detail the Founders' intentions - the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. With a search underway by both sides of the political spectrum, Peter and Evangeline know they must get the document first so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands...

Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution--and changed the world. The era's dramatic events, from the riotous streets in Boston to the unlikely victory at Saratoga, are punctuated with lavishly illustrated biographies of the key founders--Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington,...

Presents a comprehensive of the American Revolution, from the early settlement of the continent, through the crises of the 1760's and 1770's, to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and finally to the election of 1800. Also examines the role played by African Americans and Native Americans.