Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Martha Washington's Quilt
A Quilted Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Nova Scotia and Connecticut played a unique role in the freedom conflict of the colonies during the Revolutionary War period. Martha Washington's Quilt brings our attention to little-known pieces of history as we look through the eyes of the Starr family. Samuel Huntington, a relative of the Starr...
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
*Includes historic art depicting the siege of Yorktown and important people and events. *Includes the final surrender document. *Includes an account of the siege by American soldier Ebenezer Deezy*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Yorktown was a former tobacco...
Red Dreams, White Nightmares
Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably...
by James M. Volo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The Boston Tea Party has been a source of inspiration to the millions of Americans who currently identify with today's Tea Party Patriots.This fascinating book offers insights into how this historical event prompted the creation of a democratic republic and discusses the resulting influence on modern...
Propaganda 1776
Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
1776 symbolizes a moment, both historical and mythic, of democracy in action. That year witnessed the release of a document, which Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations and spin, would later label as a masterstroke of propaganda. Although the Declaration of Independence relies heavily...
by Lily Silver
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Brief Historical Essay
Many people assume that the women's rights movement first began during the abolitionist movement of the 19th century. Feminist thought began earlier, during the Colonial and Revolutionary period in America.
During the early years of this nation's founding, women...
by David J. Bodenhamer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The framers of the Constitution chose their words carefully when they wrote of a more perfect union--not absolutely perfect, but with room for improvement. Indeed, we no longer operate under the same Constitution as that ratified in 1788, or even the one completed by the Bill of Rights in 1791--because...
We Have Not a Government
The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government collapsed, and Congress grudgingly agreed to support...
Making Slavery History
Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century. The particular setting is a time and place in which people were hyperconscious of their roles as historical actors...
American Honor
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans'...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of...
Revolutionary Brothers
Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations....
Representative Americans
The Revolutionary Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001
Each generation of Americans has a special flavor, a character of its own. Sometimes a memorable decade, such as the "Gay Nineties" or the "Roaring Twenties," imprinted the generation that lived and outlived it. Yet no simple rubric comes easily to mind when one thinks of the Revolutionary...