Woody Holton: 4 books
by Woody Holton
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution
Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now...
Forced Founders
Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots...
by Woody Holton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The New York Times Book Review**, Editor’s Choice**
American Heritage, Best of 2009
In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award–winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation...
Cultures in Conflict
The Seven Years' War in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
The Seven Years' War (1754–1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts...