Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Founding Fathers
Eavesdrop on the Great Mind and Debates That Shaped Our Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Essential reading for anyone interested in the leaders who shaped our nation
Popular interest in the Founding Fathers has surged over the past decade and is beginning to rival interest in the Civil War. People are increasingly looking back to the generation that invented this country's political...
Founding Mothers & Fathers
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, this novel is about power relationships in early American society, religion, and politics--with insights into the initial development and operation of government, the maintenance of social order, and the experiences of individual men and women.
This Violent Empire
The Birth of an American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.
Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg...
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
They would eventually come together to form the United States of America, but at the start of 1776, there wasn’t really a ‘typical’ American colonist. Meet the Palatine Germans, the Dutch patroons, Irish laborers, English Quakers, the enslaved Africans who would soon come together under the...
Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom
The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (1734–1795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the last half of the eighteenth century. Although he grew up in the evangelical heartland of Scotland...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1825) was one of the most well-known Americans in history. As one of the prominent Founding Fathers, Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, the first Secretary of State, the third President of the United States,...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In...
by Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, James Otis & Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The American Revolution is well ingrained in the minds of every American, who grows up learning famous phrases like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and We the People. The narrative of the social and political rebellion against the British Empire that ended with 13 colonies forming the United...
by Benjamin Franklin, William Penn & John Woolman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
*Includes Benjamin Franklins Autobiography and a chronology of his life, John Woolmans Journal, and William Penns Fruits of Solitude. *Illustrated with images of Franklin, Woolman, and Penn. The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles...
The King's Three Faces
The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break...
Anne Orthwood's Bastard
Sex and Law in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2002
In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia. Orthwood died soon after giving birth; one of the twins, Jasper, survived. Orthwood's illegitimate pregnancy sparked four related cases that came before the Northampton magistrates...