Inventing a past -- Paul Revere's ride -- Molly Pitcher -- The man who made a revolution : Sam Adams -- The shot heard 'round the world : Lexington and Concord -- The winter at Valley Forge -- Jefferson's Declaration of Independence -- Founding Fathers : the greatest generation -- "Give me liberty or give me death" -- "Do not fire till you see the whites of their eyes" -- Patriotic slaves -- Brutal British -- The final battle at Yorktown -- March of the American people -- Storybook nation, or, Why we tell tall tales.