Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by Abraham Lincoln, George Washington & Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Harvard Classics Volume 43 compiled a collection of essential American documents, comprised of 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents that cover the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country and through the Civil War and early 20th...
Poisoned by Lies and Hypocrisy
America's First Attempt to Bring Liberty to Canada,1775-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Historian Gavin K. Watt offers a fresh interpretation of the 1775 Invasion of Canada.
In 1775, Governor Guy Carleton returned to Canada after a four-year absence in England to discover that political unrest in the American colonies was at a fever pitch. Soon after, open warfare erupted in Massachusetts,...
Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America
Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 offers the first deep analysis of the most important libel trial in post-revolutionary America and an approach to understanding a much-studied revolutionary figure, Benjamin Rush, in a new light as a legal subject....
by Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This file includes both Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) and Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America (1775). According to Wikipedia: "Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common...
by John Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian who wrote letters to Charles Darwin and became a voluminous writer of histories near the end of his life. The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to...
An Interesting Journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut
As Kept by Himself, during His Long and Tedious March through the Wilderness to Quebec, until His Return to His Native Pace. Detailing the Distressing Events of the Expedition against Quebec, under the Command of Col. Arnold in the Year 1775
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
An Interesting Journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut
As Kept by Himself, during His Long and Tedious March through the Wilderness to Quebec, until His Return to His Native Pace. Detailing the Distressing Events of the Expedition against Quebec, under the Command of Col. Arnold in the Year...
John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
Catholicism in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon—a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America’s most influential and overlooked founding fathers. Witherspoon was an active member of the Continental Congress and was the...
America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations
America’s Forgotten History, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? American's Forgotten History questions standard understanding from a constitutionalist point...
by Charles Downer Hazen, John Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. Two...
The Age of Revolutions
The American Revolution & The French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. Two...
The Long Road to Change
America's Revolution, 1750-1820
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Breaking from traditional historical interpretations of the period, Eric Nellis takes a long view of the origins and consequences of the Revolution and asserts that the Revolution was not, as others have argued, generated by a well-developed desire for independence, but rather by a series of shifts...
by Henry Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Washington was glad to remain at Mount Vernon as long as possible after he had consented to serve as President, enjoying the life of a country gentleman, which was now much more suited to his taste than official employment. He was weary of public duties and the heavy demands upon his time which had...
Founding Martyr
The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker Hill on the brink of revolution
Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American...
The First Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led...