"The Unknown American Revolution"
Dr. Gary Nash
Professor and Director of
the National Center for History in the Schools
University of California, Los Angeles

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Gary Nash link is an American historian. He led the design of the 1986 California History/ Social Science Framework, the 1994 National History Standards, and the subsequent 1996 revised edition. He has served as Director of the National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA (NCHS) since 1994. He is a Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Nash has written numerous books including Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America (5th Edition)), First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001,The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005) and The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006).

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Links supporting Dr. Gary Nash's Presentation

• Article: "Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer", article by Gary Nash describing Thomas Peters' escape from slavery during the Revolutionary War, his relocation to Nova Scotia after the war and his eventual resettlement in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/nash.html

•Video lecture: "A Tragic Betrayal in the New Nation" video of a talk by Gary Nash given in 2009 at UCLA featuring excerpts from his book Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6snQ1VUcrI

• Article: "Christ’s Militia: How evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion", an article by Gary Nash in 2005 Boston Review online.
http://bostonreview.net/BR30.2/nash.php

• Book review of The Unknown American Revolution by Jason Palmer (Department of History, United States Military Academy).
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1262

• Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier (from 1777 - 1778)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oV7V176UZnIC&pg

• Primary Source account: “Laying Close Siege to the Enemy”: Joseph Plumb Martin at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6597/

• Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin - excerpts detail Martin's activity at Fort Mifflin
http://www.ushistory.org/march/other/martindiary.htm

• Painting "Agrippa Hull" (1759 - 1838) Report from PBS series "Africans in America"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p13.html

• Painting "Battle of Cowpens", January 1781 Report and painting from PBS series "Africans in America"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h46.html

• Painting "George Washington crossing the Delaware River" by Leutze - story of the famous painting showing Prince Whipple
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h48.html

• Article: "Prince Whipple: Symbol of African Americans at the Battle of Trenton" article by Richard S. Walling
http://www.whipple.org/prince/princewhipple.html

• Biography: Peter Salem - article from Encyclopedia Britannica, 1996
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history
/1937/Peter_Salem_an_original_patriot

• Painting: "The death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_death_of_general
_warren_at_the_battle_of_bunker_hill.jpg

• Biography: Joseph Brant (c. 1743 – 24 November 1807) was a Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution. Article and links to information about his life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brant

• Biography: William Franklin (1731 – November 17, 1813) was the last Colonial Governor of New Jersey and a steadfast Loyalist throughout the Revolutionary War. Article and links to information about his life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin

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