This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.
America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities (For Kids series)
Age 9 and up
History books are replete with heroic stories of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, but what of Allen, Russwurm, and Hawley? America’s Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation’s early African American leaders. Many know that the Revolutionary War’s first martyr, Crispus Attucks, a dockworker of African descent, was killed at the Boston Massacre. But far fewer know that the final conflict of the war, the Battle of Yorktown, was hastened to a conclusion by James Armistead Lafayette, a slave and spy who reported the battle plans of General Cornwallis to George Washington.
The Talent CodeDaniel Coyle wants to show us that we have been wrong or misinformed for a long time since, according to new information (based on scientific and case studies), talent can be stimulated, grown as a muscle Anyone can be talented as long as they put into use the right techniques. That is one of the revolutionary ideas that the author tries to explain in this excellent book, and whose main aim is to change our concept or idea about what talent really is.
