Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Connecticut Families of the Revolution
American Forebears from Burr to Wolcott
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Some of the most prominent families of the American Revolution proudly hailed from Connecticut. Committed to the pursuit of freedom, men like Major General David Wooster led troops into battle, while Samuel Huntington and others risked it all by signing the Declaration of Independence. Women might have...
Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution
Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
These journal accounts and letters form one of the most engaging and readable accounts of the American Revolution. Written with directness, simplicity, and charm by the wife of the commanding general of Brunswick troops in the British army, the narrative reveals the conditions in revolutionary America.
Originally...
American Lazarus
Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which...
The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence
The Essays of George H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
For almost a century after the U.S. Constitution went into effect, few Americans seem to have questioned the legitimacy of the Revolution. Since the Progressive generation of historians began the work of serious criticism and revision, however, students of American life have largely learned to live with...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776–83), and his work with Pennsylvania’s revolutionary...
A Warring Nation
Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert—and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.
Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that...
American Leaders and Heroes
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This edition presents incredible lives of some of the most notable persons of American history. It is hoped that this book will furnish reader's mind some conception of what American history is, and at the same time stimulate an abiding interest in historical and biographical reading. Contents: Christopher...
by Michael C. Scoggins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson's plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, laid...
![Cover of The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/august/300x300/9781440830280-TJGj_300x.jpg)
The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
A Daily Life Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This two-volume set brings to life the daily thoughts and routines of men and women—rich and poor, of various cultures, religions, races, and beliefs—during a time of great political, social, economic, and legal turmoil.
• Provides summaries of what people ate, wore, and read and also...
Justifying Revolution
Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legend. But America is not simply the invention of great men or the outcome of an inevitable political or social movement. The nation was the result of a hard,...
George Washington
Uniting a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
In 1776, thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain. Although they came together to fight a war, the colonies were far from a unified nation. In George Washington: Uniting a Nation, Don Higginbotham argues that Washington's greatest contribution to American life was creating a sense...
Tory Insurgents
The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Building on the work of his 1989 book, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays,...
American Dialogue
The Founders and Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.
The story of history is a ceaseless...
The Clamor of Lawyers
The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory,...