Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Antebellum Women
Private, Public, Partisan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question...
Founding Fathers
The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
An authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nation
How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? How did thinkers from disparate backgrounds shape a government that transformed modern politics?...
Osage Women and Empire
Gender and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women....
by A. D. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Sir Alfred Daniel Hall, FRS, sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall was a British agricultural educationist and researcher. He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. He was principal of Wye College and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station.
by Willis J. Abbot
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Willis John Abbot was an American journalist, and a prolific author of war, army, navy, marine corps and merchant marine books.
The American Revolution (Vol. 1-3)
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book on the American Revolution consists of three parts-a brief narrative history of the war, a chronology of military events, and a bibliography. Each part requires a word of explanation. The narrative consists of one chapter on the colonial background of American military history and two on...
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration...
Disunion!
The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting...
Tea Leaves
Being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Tea Leaves
Being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company;
Now first printed from the original manuscript. with an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787–1788, John Bach McMaster, a professor of American history, and Frederick D. Stone, librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, assembled newspaper articles, editorials, and records about the debates in Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention....
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1978
This volume presents an eminent historian's progress over thirty years in trying to understand the American Revolution. Here is the historian at his best—beginning with the assumption that things are not always as they appear to be, delighting in the discovery of the previously unknown, and offering...
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Although floods rarely get as much coverage as other kinds of natural disasters like volcanic explosions, the Johnstown Flood of 1889 has remained an exception due to the sheer destruction and magnitude of the disaster. On May 31, 1889, Johnstown became a casualty of a combination of heavy rains and...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities’ civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818–1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would...