David Hackett Fischer

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1) Champlain's dream

Author

Fischer, David Hackett

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2008

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Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.

2) Paul Revere's ride

Author

Fischer, David Hackett

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1994

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Discusses the events leading up to Paul Revere's ride, and reinforces his importance in the history of the Revolutionary War.

3) African founders: how enslaved people expanded American ideals

Author

Fischer, David Hackett

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures...

4) Washington's crossing

Author

Fischer, David Hackett

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his...