Sons of Liberty

by Marshall T. Poe

Nathaniel Smithfield is a ten-year-old boy living with his family in Boston, Massachusetts in 1768 when he first starts to witness the drama happening in the city around him. Tension heats up between those who are loyal to the British crown, like Nathaniel's father, and those who believe the people of America are being treated unfairly. Over the following years as he grows into a teenager, Nathaniel must decide where his own beliefs lie, and how far he will go to fight for them, no matter the consequences.

Genres: Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 17, 2008

About the author

Marshall Tillbrook Poe (born December 29, 1961) is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors. He has taught Russian, European, Eurasian and World history at various universities including Harvard, Columbia, University of Iowa, and, currently, the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught courses on new media and online collaboration.

Poe is the author or editor of a number of books on early modern Russia. He has also published A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet, a book that examines how various communications media shape social practices and values.

In 2005, Poe founded the now-defunct MemoryArchive, a universal wiki-type archive of contemporary memoirs. It encouraged people to contribute written accounts of their personal memories that would be part of a searchable, online database. There he contributed numerous personal accounts of his own, from playing basketball with Barack Obama, to stumbling onto a crime scene of Dennis Rader's, the BTK serial killer.

In 2006, Poe wrote an influential commentary on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, while serving as a writer, researcher and editor at The Atlantic magazine.

Reviews

[Rhonda · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok... didn't totally understand the current day people before the "story telling" section of history started but that was ok...

[Sabrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoy this book! Graphic novel about Abraham Lincoln and his rise to the presidency. It also discussed the some battles that took place during the Civil War. Great pictures and few words which will allow the students to make meaning of the pictures themselves.

[Edmund Davis-Quinn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice little YA/Juvenile story of pre-revolutionary Boston.

Nice graphic novel. If I was 10 would probably love this.

[Chewie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good.