American Insurgents, American Patriots
by T. H. Breen | 
The Perils of Peace
by Thomas Fleming | 
The Boston Massacre
by Hiller B. Zobel |
The Glorious Cause
by Robert Middlekauff |
From Resistance to Revolution
by Pauline Maier |
Lexington and Concord
by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot |
American Spring
by Walter R. Borneman |
1775
by Kevin Phillips |
The Long Fuse
by Don Cook |
The War Of The Revolution
by Christopher Ward |
The Marketplace of Revolution
by T. H. Breen |
"A Few Bloody Noses"
by Robert Harvey |
The British Are Coming
by Rick Atkinson |
The Stamp Act Crisis
by Edmund S. Morgan |
Saratoga
by Richard M. Ketchum |
In the years before the battles of Lexington and Concord, local people took control over their own destinies, overturning British authority and declaring themselves free from colonial oppression, with acts of rebellion that long predated the Boston Tea Party. In rural towns such as Worcester, Massachusetts, local democracy set down roots well before the Boston patriots made their moves in the fight for independence. Until now, few of these true founding fathers have made it into the historical record.