The Life of John André: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold

The Life of John André: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict ArnoldA new biography of John Andr, head of British secret services in the Revolutionary War, who was captured in 1780 and hanged as a spy. John Andr was head of the British Armys Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high ranking American officerGeneral Benedict Arnold. Arnoldhis name for ever synonymous with treason in American

Jews and Gypsies in the early modern era

activism grounded in a common struggle for justice

The first chapter provides an introduction to the Yoruba language and its history

This book is groundbreaking and unique

” —Rachael Lippincott

forgiveness

from the first interactions with Pocahontas to the emergent activism of Frederick Douglass to disastrous events like Pearl Harbor and September 11

tells a "thrillingly cinematic" (Publishers Weekly) story of the personal cost of war and the power of human connection

and his mother was in one of the first graduating classes of what is now South Carolina State University

It's action

and their five-year-old daughter

an organizer