Thirteen clocks : how race united the colonies and made the Declaration of Independence /
"In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In t...
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; The University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Newspapers on the eve of the Revolutionary War
- The long odds against American unity in the 1770s
- The "shot heard round the world" revisited
- "Britain has found means to unite us"
- A rolling snowball
- Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries
- Founding stories.
