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Introduction: Madness and Revolution

Chapter 1: The Family Quarrel: The Coming of the Revolution

Growing Children
Raising Money and Rising Anger
We Are Therefore - SLAVES
Violence in the Streets
Tea in the Harbor

Chapter 2: Breaking the Bonds: War and Independence

The Road from Lexington and Concord
Causes and Necessities
Free and Independent
Was Washington Good Enough?
Little Successes - and Big Ones

Chapter 3: Taking Sides: The Experience of War

Problems of Loyalty
Friends, Families, and Fighting
Divided Loyalties
he Fortures - and Misfortunes - of War
Women and the War

Chapter 4: Building Governments: Revolutions in Government

The Problems of Peace
Economic Successes and Failures
Constructing and Reconstructing Governments
Reconstituting the Federal Government

Chapter 5: The Limits of Liberty: Revolutions in Society and Culture

The Religious Revolution
Changing Ways of Worship
Liberty, But Not for All
Honorable Daughters of America

Chapter 6: Paul Revere: Craftsman of the Revolution

The Making of an Artisan
The Making of a Revolutionary
The Midnight Ride
The Post-Revolutionary Businessman

Chapter 7: The Living Revolution: The Revolution Remembered

Commemorations and Celebrations
American Anniversaries
The Political Uses of the Revolution
The American Revolution Beyond America

Timeline
Further Reading
Text Credits
Picture Credits
Index