Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Joseph J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A colorful, enlightening account of how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the road to July 4: a selection from Joseph J. Ellis’s American Sphinx,winner of the National Book Award.* *
How did the newest and youngest member of Virginia’s delegation to the...
Apostles of Revolution
Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From acclaimed historian John Ferling, the story of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe's involvement in the American and French Revolutions and their quest for sweeping change in both America and Europe.
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe hazarded all in quest of...
The Strategy of Victory
How General George Washington Won the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A sweeping and insightful grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US Army
Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled....
by Richard P. Kollen
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere arrived at the parsonage of Reverend Jonas Clarke to deliver a warning to its occupants, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The following morning brought the first shots of the American Revolution to a community Clarke inspired to face such a harsh reality....
George Washington and Benedict Arnold
A Tale of Two Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From 1775 through 1777, George Washington and Benedict Arnold were America's two most celebrated warriors. Their earlier lives had surprisingly parallel paths. They were strong leaders in combat, they admired and respected each other, and they even shared common enemies. Yet one became our greatest...
Patriot Pirates
The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal...
The American Revolution
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that...
George Washington
First in War, First in Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the Second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero.
With...
by Theodore P. Savas, J. David Dameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
“A well-organized and concise introduction to the war’s major battles” (The Journal of America’s Military Past).
Winner of the Gold Star Book Award for History from the Military Writers Society of America
This is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution,...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Thomas Jefferson is known by most as the third president of the United States, but his legacy extends much further than that. Born to a wealthy plantation owner, Thomas was the third of nine children. When he was just fourteen, his father died, leaving him half his land, slaves, and wealth. These...
America Afire
Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
America Afire is the powerful story of the election of 1800, arguably the most important election in America's history and certainly one of the most hotly disputed. Former allies Adams and Jefferson, president versus vice president, Federalist versus Republican, squared off in a vicious contest that...
by Schahresad Phillips, Stephen Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
A fearless defender of the last Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdom left standing, after all other kingdoms were brutally conquered by the pagan Viking Danes, King Alfred the Great (841-899 AD) was a courageous warrior leader and brilliant military strategist in battle, and a statesman and intellectual luminary...
The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic
Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story and Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
While scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in the development of a uniform system of federal...
by Pauline Maier
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence...