Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Peckuwe 1780
The Revolutionary War on the Ohio River Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton...
The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Stoddard
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard is part biography, and part autobiography. It is the story of the life and times of Major Amos Stoddard, the first civil commandant and governor of Upper Louisiana. Amos Stoddard tragically died at the siege of Fort Meigs (Ohio) during the War...
The Battle of Camden
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
First-person accounts and historical analyses of this dramatic Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina.
On the foggy morning of August 16, 1780, American and British armies clashed in the pine woods north of Camden, South Carolina, in one of the most important and influential battles of...
by Keith A. Brough, Frank Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
General Ward’s Colonial Army is an enlightening collection of articles giving the history of the Massachusetts minute-men and militia that first engaged the British during the Revolutionary War. When this series was originally published for The Massachusetts Magazine, 1908–1918, the periodical proved...
To Be Useful to the World
Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster...
Unsettling the West
Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively...
The Citizenship Revolution
Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation. In The Citizenship Revolution, Douglas Bradburn undercuts this view by showing that the Union, not...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This significant historical book on a vital aspect of the Revolutionary War - the Virginia campaign, the blockade and siege of Yorktown, and the role of the French in the American Revolution. It was written by the Army War College in 1931.
Contents: Part I - Yorktown, 1781 * Part II - The French-American...
Experiencing Empire
Power, People, and Revolution in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power— and its absence—in dynamic ways. On both sides of the revolutionary divide, Americans viewed themselves as an imperial people. This perspective conditioned how they understood...
The Martyr and the Traitor
Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general, George Washington....
by Joseph Beaumont Wakeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
This is a unique bit of Methodist history. It was compiled from what was a "lost book" of history. It covers the time from 1768 to 1797, and is an interesting look into the past. It is a must have for anyone who is perusing the histories as penned by Abel Stevens or Nathan Bangs....
The American Revolution
A Historical Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of these sites are well known--Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Fort Ticonderoga--and in no danger of being...
The Meaning of Anarchism
From Loyalism to Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Captain Jack White (1879-1946). Any study of anarchism anywhere in Ireland would be amiss if it did not include mention of the first organiser of the Irish Citizen Army: republican, communist and then anarchist, Captain Jack White. Born at Whitehall, near Broughshane in County Antrim Jack White spent...
One Man's War in Spain
Trickery, Treachery and Thievery
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The collected memoirs and documents in this book, penned or preserved by the author with such belief and ideological conviction over so very many years of effort, can be described as a masterwork. Without euphemism or any other sort of circumlocution, they bluntly set out facts that will come as a...