Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Ruwe oversteek
Groot-Brittannië, de slaven en de Amerkaanse revolutie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 13, 2020
Welk aandeel had de slavernij in de Amerikaanse Revolutie (1775-1783)?Simon Schama vertelt in Ruwe oversteek op meesterlijke wijze over de grote, maar onderbelichte rol die slaven speelden in de strijd tussen Amerika en Groot-Brittannië. Tienduizenden Afrikaans-Amerikaanse slaven vluchtten van plantages...
A Colonial Williamsburg Love Affair
Tales, Takes, and Tips From a Lifetime of Visits
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Have you ever wondered why some travel destinations set your soul on fire and drive you to return again and again while other locations leave you cold? A Colonial Williamsburg Love Affair: Tales, Takes and Tips From a Lifetime of Visits, explores this very theme. Through heartfelt and intimate reflections...
by Paul Revere
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Perhaps no event in American History is more iconic than Paul Revere's ride in 1775. Revere's account was written at an unknown date after his famous ride.
Eloquence Is Power
Oratory and Performance in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early...
Abductions in the American Revolution
Attempts to Kidnap George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Other Military and Civilian Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The tactic of kidnapping enemy leaders, used in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, dates to the American Revolution. George Washington called such efforts “honorable” and supported attempts to kidnap the British commander-in-chief (twice), Benedict Arnold (after he turned traitor) and Prince...
An Animated Son of Liberty
a life of John Witherspoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
This is the life of a leading 18th century Scottish academic and churchman who was invited over to the American colonies as one of the first Presidents of what was eventually to become Princeton University. He was elected to Congress in 1775, and in 1776, was the only clergyman to sign the Delcaration...
First City
Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of...
The Ragged Road to Abolition
Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an abolition statute, in 1804. Because of the nature of the law, which freed children born to enslaved mothers only after they...
by Jeffrey Allen Zemler
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The strong relationship that historians have described between the South and the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century had its origins in the twenty-year period after the American Revolution when a group of far-sighted southerners, with James Madison in the forefront, worked to form...
Founding Friendships
Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as...
Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730–1805
In Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it was often through the political sermon that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. Political sermons such as the fifty-five...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The adoption of the Bill of Rights was the last step in defining the essential elements of American constitutionalism. The process began with the writing of the Constitution, continued through its ratification by the states, and culminated with the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In 1991 the bicentennial...
Bayonets and Scimitars
Arms, Armies and Mercenaries 1700–1789
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
A look at the tumult and transformations in warfare during the eighteenth century—and the world-changing events that resulted.
The eighteenth century in Europe was a period of significant economic, political, and technological upheaval—which led to the American and French revolutions, and...
The Early Republic: Documents Decoded
Documents Decoded
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
From distinguished author John R. Vile comes a new history of the American early republic period, presented through primary documents that are illuminated and explained in context.
• Highlights and explains a wide range of key documents that range from Washington's Inaugural Address to John...