Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Wild Yankees
The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth...
Pulpit and Nation
Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas...
A Man Apart
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774 - 1781
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one....
The Swamp Fox
Francis Marion’s Campaign in the Carolinas 1780
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
The American Revolution was deadlocked in the north, and in 1778, the focus of the conflict shifted south. Following his decisive 1780 victory at Charleston, Cornwallis launched a campaign through the Carolinas that was designed to expel American Continental and militia forces from the south. The...
Daniel Morgan
Revolutionary Rifleman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Over the vast distances and rough terrain of the Revolutionary War, the tactics that Daniel Morgan had learned in Indian fighting--the thin skirmish line, the stress upon individual marksmanship, the hit-and-run mobility--were an important element of his success as a commander. He combined this success...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings in the...
Sister Revolutions
French Lightning, American Light
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2000
What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today.
In 1790, the American diplomat and politician Gouverneur Morris compared the French and American Revolutions, saying that the French "have taken Genius instead of Reason for their guide, adopted Experiment instead...
Liberty on the Waterfront
American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with...
by Henry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
What kind of impact does a battle and siege from more than 200 years ago have on the world today? Yorktown held the key to the end of the American Revolution and allowed America to become not only a sovereign nation, but also set the stage for it to become a world power, worth keeping an eye on.
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Washington's General
Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown
Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named in his honor dot city...
Major General Israel Putnam
Hero of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718–1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors. He later commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba....
by Revolutionary War and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In the last generation, the federal government and Supreme Court have gained an enormous amount of power at the expense of individual and state rights. Americans have become increasingly ignorant of their constitutional freedoms, so much so that most people don't even realize it when a legislative...
Revolutionary New Castle
The Struggle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Though New Castle did not see any battles during the American Revolution, it was the Delaware's Colonial capital, and at it was at the center of the rebellion in the state. Its village green, still present today, served as a venue for early forums where colonists aired their grievances with the British...
by John Clark Ridpath
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Biography of an eloquent and persuasive lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who led the resistance against Britain at the time of the Stamp Act and the Tea Party. Due to brain damage from being bashed in the head by a British official, he was unable to play an active role in the Revolution which he helped...