Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Washington's Revolution
The Making of America's First Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.
George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind...
George Washington
The Life & Times of George Washington – Complete Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
George Washington (1732-1799) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and...
America's Jubilee
A Generation Remembers the Revolution After 50 Years of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
InAmerica's Jubilee distinguished historian Andrew Burstein presents an engrossing narrative that takes us back to a pivotal year in American history, 1826, when the reins of democracy were being passed from the last Revolutionary War heroes to a new generation of leaders.
Through brilliant...
Hamilton
An American Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical**,**continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.
In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the...
Constituent Moments
Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied....
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided...
by Julian Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The History of United States by Julian Hawthorne is in the public dominion, why I buy it? For the followings motives: In addition of the original text there are others complementary texts. These text are: Battles of Lexington and Concord in 13 chapters, Salem witch trials in 23 chapters, Witch and...
by Woody Holton
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution
Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now...
American Scripture
Making the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by...
American Enlightenments
Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the...
The Winter Soldiers
The Battles for Trenton and Princeton
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow to the Revolutionary War efforts. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance, bringing what Thomas Paine called "the times that try men's souls."
The Winter Soldiers is...
by Gary B. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises...
by Marquis de Lafayette
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Memoirs of General Lafayette
With an Account of His Visit to America, and of His Reception by the People of the United States; from His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824 by Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Introductory...
With Musket and Tomahawk
The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence . . .
With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the northeast during the Revolutionary War. Combining strategic, tactical, and...