Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Not Your Father's Founders
An "Amended" Look at America's First Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The founding fathers-reframed!
Tired of reading about stiff, snooze-worthy revolutionary rebels? How about lackluster wars and mind-numbing laws? Not Your Father's Founders breathes life back into history with dynamic profiles of the politicos, wartime heroes, and lesser-known but equally important...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Fifty-five men from 12 virtually autonomous states came to Philadelphia in 1787 in a brave - some thought foolhardy - attempt to replace a loose and fragile confederation with a strong national government. They were politicians, judges, governors, and Revolutionary War veterans. Thomas Jefferson called...
by Gordon S. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book Review
"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history...
by Richard Labunski
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and most influential state, approved the Constitution...
Our Lost Declaration
America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
New York Times bestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founder's takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America.
There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written...
Thomas Paine
Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist...
Women of the Republic
Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience...
Portraying Our Past
Historiography and its Influences
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Portraying Our Past is a collection of three previously published essays on historiography and its influences: Dawn of History: The Early Greek Historians; An Incomplete Story: The History of Carthage and Hannibal; and Citizen Army: Classical Influences on the American Revolutionary War. This work...
Columbia Rising
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper...
by Umberto Eco
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Il Settecento segna un cambiamento di ritmo nello sviluppo della storia” (Eco). La rivoluzione americana e quella francese disegnano una geografia politica non troppo distante da quella attuale, esse “scoppiano” perché sparigliano le regole secolari, già incrinate certo, ma giunte a un punto...
by Paul A. Boehlert
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
During the critical Battle of Oriskany in August 1777, Continental forces led by General Nicholas Herkimer defeated the British army under St. Leger in the heart of New York's Mohawk Valley. It was a hard-won victory, but he and his brave troops prevented the British from splitting the colonies in two....
by Michael S. Adelberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Like much of New Jersey during the American Revolution, Monmouth County was contested territory in between the great armies. As the Battles of Trenton, Princeton and Bound Brook raged nearby, the people of Monmouth County fought their own internal revolution; Loyalist partisans led insurrections and...
499 Facts about Hip-Hop Hamilton and the Rest of America's Founding Fathers
499 Facts About Hop-Hop Hamilton and America?'s First Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
You want a revolution? So did Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers!
America has fallen in love again with Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers. Here is a popping fresh collection of facts and forgotten trivia surrounding the American Revolution and our forefathers from those...