Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Patriot Battles
How the Revolutionary War was Fought
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Drawing on hundreds of specialist sources, contemporary and archival, Patriot Battles is the comprehensive one-volume study of the military aspects of the War of Independence. The first part of the book offers a richly detailed examination of the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat: For example,...
by Gerald M. Carbone
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Before he became "the Father of our Country," George Washington was the Father of the American Army. He took an army that had no experience, no tradition, and no training, and fought a protracted war against the best, most disciplined force in the world—the British Army. Deftly handling...
by Benjamin Quarles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the...
A Dirty, Trifling Piece of Business
Volume 1: The Revolutionary War as Waged from Canada in 1781
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebellion, British strategic focus had shifted from the northern states to concentrate in the south. Canada's governor, Frederick Haldimand, was responsible for the defence of the Crown's largest colony against the threat of Franco-American invasion, while assisting...
by George C. Daughan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley, control of which, both the Americans and the British firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River,...
Fire and Desolation
The Revolutionary War's 1778 Campaign as Waged from Quebec and Niagara Against the American Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Following a disastrous campaign in 1777, the alliance between the Six Nations and the British Crown became seriously strained. Relations were made even more difficult by the hands-off stance of Quebec’s governor, General Guy Carleton, which led to the Native leaders developing their own strategies...
Blood of Tyrants
George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers’ approach to government and this history’s impact on today. Delving into forgotten-and often lurid-facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation’s first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped...
From Revolution to Reunion
The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina’s victorious Patriots offered vanquished Loyalists a prompt and generous legal and social reintegration. From Revolution...
One Nation Divided by Slavery
Remembering the American Revolution While Marching toward the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The centrality of the American Revolution in the antebellum slavery controversy
In the two decades before the Civil War, free Americans engaged in “history wars” every bit as ferocious as those waged today over the proposed National History Standards or the commemoration at the Smithsonian...
Liberty Tree
Ordinary People and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women...
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
A History & Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense—and words such as "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to begin the world over again,"...
A Struggle for Power
The American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
From one of the great political journalists of our time comes a boldly argued reinterpretation of the central event in our collective past—a book that portrays the American Revolution not as a clash of ideologies but as a Machiavellian struggle for power.
Suspected of Independence
The Life of Thomas McKean, America's First Power Broker
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The Founding Fathers, mythologized for their fervor for and dedication to democratic principles, were as heavily mired in partisanship, plagued by petty infighting, and driven by personal gain as, arguably, the most notorious members of today's Congress. In fact, David McKean reveals in this brilliant...
Tecumseh
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography--thirty years in the making--of the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian tribes...