January 2006- December 2006 News and Announcements:
12/11/06 - The creatures that live in the great depths of the sea are the least known of any on the planet, as the majesty of this world has remained beyond our reach until now. From BBC Video and the makers of the Walking With series, the Ocean Odyssey Documentary DVD explores the most mysterious environment on earth, and its fascinating inhabitants. By using new technological advances and CGI, this two-part series showcases the most accurate and revealing portrait of the beauty of the earth's oceans ever captured. Click Here for More Details from The Patriot Resource
10/31/06 - BBC Atlas of the Natural World: Western Hemisphere and Antarctica DVD is a 6-disc set including four landmark series: Land of the Eagle, Spirits of the Jaguar, BAFTA nominated Wild South America, and Sir David Attenborough's BAFTA and International Emmy Award-winning Life In The Freezer. Together, these four series offer one of the most comprehensive portraits of the Western Hemisphere and Antarctica ever assembled. Each series can be viewed in Enhanced Content Mode, which provides pop-up windows that appear periodically during the program featuring added factual content. Click Here for More Details from The Patriot Resource
10/22/06 - American Revolutionary Nonfiction Books | Book Reviews Now in Paperback:Young Patriots by Charles Cerami | Amazon.com
Young Patriots, by the author of the very successful Jefferson's Great Gamble, is a gripping and dramatic narrative account of the creation of the Constitution of the United States.Young Patriots tells of the struggle and compromises and the stories of these men, as they did the impossible, and changed so dramatically the course of civilization. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
9/13/06 - American Revolution Resources: New Book Arrivals The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History by Jim Piecuch | Sept 2006 | Amazon.com
This engaging new book presents the Battle of Camden as never before: through the eyes and words of American and British participants and contemporary observers. The events leading up to the conflict, the combat itself and the consequences of Camden are all described in striking detail.
7/26/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era Now in Paperback: John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In the first full-length John Jay biography for almost seventy years. Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/26/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era Now in Paperback: The Other New York, edited by Joseph Tiedemann & Eugene Fingerhut, provides a county-by-county survey of the regions outside of New York City, describing the social and cultural conditions on the eve of the Revolution and details the events leading up to the conflict, the battles and campaigns fought within the state, the hardships civilians experienced while creating new local governments and supplying the war effort, and postwar reconstruction efforts. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/9/06 - Piracy, particularly in the Caribbean, was at one time a very real and dangerous problem. Men with names such as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and Black Bart pillaged and plundered ships and seaport towns, offering violent retribution to those who resisted and seizing fortunes at will. On Sunday, July 9th, 2006 at 8pm/7c on The History Channel presentation True Caribbean Pirates, Get to know the real characters, fight the battles they fought, watch nations rise up to stop them, and separate fact from fiction. Pirate Facts, Profiles, Multimedia and Presentation Review from The Patriot Resource
6/24/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
Rum is more than just a delicious drink - it helped to shape the modern world. Ian Williams's book, Rum, as biting, multifaceted, and warm-spirited as the drink itself - triumphantly restores rum's rightful place in history, taking us across space and time, from its origins in the plantations of Barbados through Puritan and Revolutionary New England, to Voodoo rites in modern Haiti and across the Florida straits where Fidel and the Bacardi family are still fighting over the rights to the ingredients for a Cuba Libre. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
5/28/06 - He lost more battles than he won, faced mutinies among his men, and helped to ignite a war with reckless military decisions. And still to this day, George Washington is the standard by which all other American commanders are held. Find out how George Washington became America's foremost founding father, one battle at a time, in the special The History Channel presentation, Washington The Warrior, airing Monday, May 29th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Click Here for More Details and Review of the Presentation from The Patriot Resource
5/2/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
America's popular memory of the Revolutionary War casts New England minutemen facing off against redcoats at Concord Bridge and George Washington's frostbitten soldiers huddled together at Valley Forge, but The Southern Strategy, David K. Wilson's new study challenges the generally accepted notion that the war was fought primarily in the North. Wilson considers the waging of war in the southern colonies during the critical and often overlooked period from 1775 to the spring of 1780. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
3/31/06 -
In 2004, a group of historians met with The History Channel to discuss days that unexpectedly changed the history of America . The goal, which everyone agreed on, was to select ten days that weren't obvious and were seemingly undervalued in their influence in shaping America 's national and cultural identity.
The result is 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, a remarkable 10-hour documentary special event emarkable look at ten days, some familiar and some lesser known, that together illustrate the path this country has taken. It premiers on The History Channel, April 9 through April 13 at at 9:00PM/8C. Click Here for More Details
2/17/06 -
A top-secret expedition in August 2005 to the Titanic wreck site produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel. Using high-definition photographic equipment, an internationally acknowledged team of experts has located brand-new information that maritime historian Simon Mills has termed ".possibly the most significant pieces of evidence since the wreck was located in 1985." Find out in The History Channel special presentation, Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces, premiering Sunday February 26, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. ET Click Here for Press Release
1/15/06 - Every American knows Abraham Lincoln as the emancipator of slaves, the man who held America together in its darkest days, and one of
the country’s most mythic figures. But few know the Lincoln who battled suicidal urges and at times called himself “The loneliest man in the world.” Lincoln, airing Monday, January 16th 2006 at 8-11pm ET/PT on The History Channel, goes inside a life scarred by loss, a mind ravaged by tragedy, a man whose grand achievements were fueled by his own personal turmoil. Click Here for Review, Featured Biographers, Photo Gallery, Highlights and Timeline
1/10/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
Now available in Paperback: In A Great Improvisation, author Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Benjamin Franklin's life: an unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
10/1/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
James Grant examines the complex and often contradictory Founding Father in the most well-rounded and multifaceted portrait of John Adams to date. Chronicling Adams's life - from his beginnings on a hardscrabble Massachusetts farm to the Continental Congress, Court of St. James, and the White House - Grant traces the words and deeds of one of America's most learned but politically star-crossed leaders. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
10/1/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era British Supporters of the American Revolution by Sheldon S. Cohen focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
9/3/05 - Hurricane Katrina
Because PatriotResource.com is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, updates to the website have been disrupted for more than a week. Our own close friends, family and work were not severely affected by the hurricane. Though Baton Rouge itself only suffered isolated wind damage and power outages, the ongoing relief efforts for the areas to the east and southeast are taxing Baton Rouge. As a result, updates may be sporadic in spite of our efforts to return to many of the regular routines of life as a comfort for our own families. Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts from FBBC.org
8/12/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding fathers. In the first full-length biography for almost seventy years. Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/3/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
In A Great Improvisation, author Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
