Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This authoritative timeline of the American Revolution includes the text of numerous original documents of the era, providing extraordinary insight into the thoughts and plans of key players in the drama, including General George Washington.
Sample of Contents (incomplete): Washington to Robert...
Defiant Brides
The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The story of two Revolutionary–era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are forever changed
When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated...
Enjoy the Same Liberty
Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft...
by Milton C. Van Vlack
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassination conspiracies ever carried out in the Revolutionary War era. Even after almost two and a half centuries, he remains in the eyes of many modern historians, “worse than Arnold,” his boyhood friend. This is very wrong. Because...
Continental vs Redcoat
American Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The American Revolutionary War pitched the newly formed Continental Army against the professional British Redcoats – a highly trained organization manned by long-serving and experienced infantrymen with a formidable reputation forged on European battlefields during the Seven Years' War. So, how...
Revolutionary Spirits
The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Revolutionary Spirits confronts many of the later myths about the religious views of America’s Founders, and brings to life their complex creeds and personalities. It offers clear and candid portraits of Franklin, Washington, Paine, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison as both religious reformers and political rebels, and reclaims their spiritual inheritance for today.
Founding Faith
Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed...
by Captain Samuel Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
As a Connecticut captain in America's Revolutionary War, Samuel Richards lived through the carnage and deprivations that were the cost of freedom from England. His diary is important for its vivid descriptions of life in the ranks during battle, starvation, and the great events of his day. Along...
by Daniel W. Barefoot
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Many historians believe the fortunes of the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War turned dramatically on the battlefields of North and South Carolina. This guide travels to such sites in South Carolina as Cowpens, Ninety Siz, Camden, Eutaw Springs, and Kings Mountain. It also includes relevant...
Learning to Stand and Speak
Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social...
Dangerous Guests
Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners—both British regulars and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This significant historical work produced by the U.S. Army Center of Military History about the overall history of the American Revolution. Excerpted from the Army Historical Series - American Military History, Volume 1, Second Edition, it provides a great overview of the Revolutionary War from the...
by Edward J. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
George Washington was the unanimous choice of his fellow founders for president, and he is remembered to this day as an exceptional leader, but how exactly did this manifest itself during his lifetime? In George Washington, Nationalist, acclaimed author Edward J. Larson reveals the fascinating backstory...
by B J Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
A discussion of Continental Currencies, denominations and designs and how the Confederation of States paid for the Revolutionary war.