Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Edward Heath Made Me Angry
(The later memoirs of a West of Scotland ‘baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Stuart Christie was released from a Spanish prison in September 1967, having served over three years of a 20-year sentence for his part in an anarchist plot to assassinate General Franco, the last of the Axis dictators. He came back to a world of social and industrial turbulence, growing anger at...
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. **
Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict...
A Revolutionary People At War
The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace...
Women of the Revolution
Bravery and Sacrifice on the Southern Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2007
A fascinating account of the women who contributed to the Revolutionary War—both patriots and loyalists—at specific battles in the Carolinas.
Each of the Southern Revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women. From the wooded slopes of Kings Mountain to the...
Turncoat
Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor?
General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining...
The Original American Spies
Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant...
by Julia Cantacuzène
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzène Spiransky, Princess Cantacuzène, Countess Spiransky (6 June 1876 – 4 October 1975), was an American author and historian. She was the eldest child of Frederick Dent Grant and his wife Ida Marie Honoré, and the first grandchild of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President...
The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton
The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson’s nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton has been the focus of debate from his day to ours. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father,...
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Power and Justice in the New American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles...
The Complete Works of George Washington
Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This thoroughly edited collection gives a complete insight into the life and legacy of the first American President, George Washington. The work of George Washington presented in this book covers both his military carrier (Journals and Orders from the Revolutionary war) and his presidency (Inaugural...
The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included...
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In this compelling account, William Harrison Taylor examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 to highlight the church’s ambitious agenda of fostering and uniting a host of New World values, among them Christendom, nationalism, and territorial...
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded...
Loyalists and Redcoats
A Study in British Revolutionary Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyzes the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown. The capacity of the Loyalists to affect the war's outcome...