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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.
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11/14/06 - It's a story familiar to most of us from school. And in many ways, the story of the passengers on the Mayflower is like that of every immigrant who has come to America to start a new life. Yet the true story of the Pilgrims is far more complex than the one most of us learned as children. This is a decades-long epic tale, filled with real drama, tragedy, and inspiration, revealed in the three-hour special Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story Of The Mayflower airing on The History Channel on Sunday, November 19 at 8pm ET/PT.
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Desperate Crossing

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.
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BBC Atlas of the Natural World

10/22/06 - American Revolutionary Nonfiction Books | Book Reviews
New Jersey in the American Revolution Edited by Barbara Mitnick | Amazon.com
Barbara J. Mitnick has edited a remarkably comprehensive anthology, bringing new life to the rich and turbulent late eighteenth-century period in New Jersey. The volume brings together contributions by twelve outstanding and recognized experts on New Jersey history.
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New Jersey in the American Revolution
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10/22/06 - American Revolutionary Nonfiction Books | Book Reviews
Revolutionary Generation by Conrad Edick Wright | Amazon.com
What was life like for the young men who came of age in late eighteenth-century New England? How did the American Revolution and its aftermath shape their outlook and experiences? This book offers a collective biography of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771 through 1774.
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Revolutionary Generation
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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.
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10/22/06 - American Revolutionary Nonfiction Books | Book Reviews
Now in Paperback: Year of the Hangman by Glenn Williams | Amazon.com
Year of the Hangman recreates the riveting events surrounding the action, including the checkered story of European and Indian alliances, the bitter frontier wars, and the bloody battles of Oriskany and Newtown. Finalist for Thomas Fleming Award for the Outstanding Revolutionary War Book of 2005
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Year of the Hangman
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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.
The Battle of Camden

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.
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John Jay
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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.
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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
True Caribbean Pirates

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.
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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.
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Washington the Warrior

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.
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Southern Strategy
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4/29/06 - The Patriot: Index / The Patriot: Film Resources
The Patriot Extended Cut DVD has been released and includes 11 minutes of new footage. The DVD features also include: Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation, English DD5.1 Surround, French and Portuguese Dolby Surround, English/French/Portuguese/Spanish subtitles, three Featurettes and Filmographies.
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The Patriot Extended Cut DVD

4/7/06 - 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is 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.
- The Companion Book is Now Available.
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Ten Days

4/6/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution by Charles Cerami, 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.
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Young Patriots
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4/6/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer:
- Now Available on Paperback
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
- Named one of The New York Times ten best books of 2004
- Named a nonfiction finalist for the 2004 National Book Awards
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Washington's Crossing
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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.
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Ten Days

3/16/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
In The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, Michael C. Scoggins provides an in-depth account of the events that unfolded in the Broad and Catawba River valleys of upper South Carolina during the critical summer of 1780. In July of 1780, the war in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure. Then the Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, took place and paved the way for British defeats in the Southern Theatre at Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation and Cowpens.
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The Day It Rained Militia
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3/16/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
The conflict known as Pontiac's Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of the volatile atmosphere of the Ohio River Valley. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British in North America, the first complete account of Pontiac's Upringing to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in American colonial history.
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Never Come to Peace Again
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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
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Titanic

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.
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Lincoln

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.
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A Great Improvisation
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1/10/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution by Terry Golway is now available in Paperback. Though much has been written about the American Revolution and George Washington's central role, very little is known about one of his able and trusted generals. Columnist Terry Golway tells the story of Nathanael Greene, the overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island, who won the Revolutionary War's crucial southern campaign.
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Washingtons General
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1/7/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
In Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois, historian Glenn F. Williams recreates the riveting events surrounding the action, including the checkered story of European and Indian alliances, the bitter frontier wars, and the bloody battles of Oriskany and Newtown.
Finalist for Thomas Fleming Award for the Outstanding Revolutionary War Book of 2005
Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
Year of the Hangman
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1/5/06 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
From a physician's perspective, Medicine and the American Revolution is a unique history of the American Revolution and how diseases impacted the execution of the war effort. The medical histories of Washington and King George III are also provided.
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Medicine and the American Revolution
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11/19/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
Battlegrounds of Freedom is a fascinating travelogue through the battles of the the American Revolutionary War, inviting readers to re-enact each battle vicariously exactly where and how it was fought.
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Battlegrounds of Freedom
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10/9/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
The Pocket Book of Patriotism retells the thrilling story of America from an unabashedly traditional, proudly patriotic point of view. A concise handbook for the informed modern patriot, it is an inspired celebration of the great American experiment. Inspired by George Courtauld's bestselling Pocket Book of British Patriotism, Jonathan Foreman's companion book is refreshingly free of political correctness of any stripe—a source of patriotic inspiration that you will want to turn to again and again.
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Pocket Book of Patriotism
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10/9/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
The History Press is proud to present Reflections of Rebellion: Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution, by nineteenth-century historian Benson J. Lossing, as a new addition to the "New World Classics" series. Out of print since 1889, Reflections of Rebellion is highly sought-after by historians, as it contains primary accounts of the Revolutionary War participants from eight states.
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Reflections of Rebellion
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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.
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John Adams
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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.
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British Supporters
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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.
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Battlestar Galactica

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
John Jay
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7/31/05 - Nonfiction Book Reviews: American Revolutionary Era
No matter where in history one turns, pets are always an important part of life. In Caroline Tiger's new book, General Howe's Dog, Tiger delves into the historical account of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War as proper breeding takes precedence in an unusual military footnote of civility under fire.
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General Howes Dog
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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
A Great Improvisation
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