This engaging overview of the American Revolution enables readers to consider and understand history with greater intimacy and accuracy through more than 100 primary documents.

• Provides carefully selected key documents that help readers understand the American Revolution—and U.S. history in general

• Makes primary source documents more accessible and comprehensible

• Includes a concise introduction that summarizes the critical points in the history of the American Revolution

• Shows how historians deconstruct and interpret documents

• Supplies useful annotations that guide the reader's analysis