Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Turncoat
Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor?
General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining...
The Original American Spies
Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant...
The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton
The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson’s nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton has been the focus of debate from his day to ours. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father,...
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Power and Justice in the New American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles...
The Complete Works of George Washington
Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This thoroughly edited collection gives a complete insight into the life and legacy of the first American President, George Washington. The work of George Washington presented in this book covers both his military carrier (Journals and Orders from the Revolutionary war) and his presidency (Inaugural...
The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included...
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In this compelling account, William Harrison Taylor examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 to highlight the church’s ambitious agenda of fostering and uniting a host of New World values, among them Christendom, nationalism, and territorial...
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded...
Loyalists and Redcoats
A Study in British Revolutionary Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyzes the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown. The capacity of the Loyalists to affect the war's outcome...
I am heartily ashamed
Volume II: The Revolutionary War's Final Campaign as Waged from Canada in 1782
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
The second installment in Gavin K. Watt's Revolutionary War trilogy, I am heartily ashamed picks up where A dirty, trifling piece of business leaves off. It's a new year with new challenges.
An incredibly fierce Canadian winter was endured before raiding was resumed against the enemy's frontiers....
The Travels of Elkanah Watson
An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American...
by Michal Jan Rozbicki
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting...
A People's History of the American Revolution
How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
“The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.” —Howard Zinn
Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael’s magisterial A People’s History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as “relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental.” With impeccable skill,...
Samuel Adams
America's Revolutionary Politician
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician offers a fresh full-life biography of the man Thomas Jefferson once described as the helmsman of the American Revolution. In his study, historian John K. Alexander uses narrative history to argue that Samuel Adams was both America's first professional...