Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Elizabeth Brown Pryor (March 15, 1951 – April 13, 2015) was an American diplomat and historian.
The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown
Radical History and the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown
The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped shape some of America’s greatest writers, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and...
An Age of Infidels
The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing...
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now...
Technology in Early America
Needs and Opportunities for Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology.
Originally published in 1966.
A UNC Press...
by John David
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
"John David lays out a plan of reform and reconstruction, to be implemented once we have enacted 'Plan B'."
"This writer is spot on . . . making him one of the biggest dreamers in America at the present time. His writing is eloquent and concise."
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Gentleman's Progress
The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This diary of Hamilton's journey through the northern colonies provides an interesting account of the life and times during the colonial period. It is a brilliant account of a typical cultured gentleman of the age and background of his times. As a physician, the diarist views life with a realistic...
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Albert Paine was a late 19th and early 20th century American author who remains best known today for collaborating with Mark Twain on a number of books.
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Albert Paine was a late 19th and early 20th century American author who remains best known today for collaborating with Mark Twain on a number of books.
Philip Freneau
Champion of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Philip Freneau was a poet, editor, and mariner. A graduate of Princeton, he was the roommate of James Madison and a classmate of Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Aaron Burr. When the colonies rebelled against England, he supported his newly born nation as a privateer, spending some time in a British prison...
by George William Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry.
An Empire Divided
The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7
28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
The 526 documents printed in this volume run from 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814. During this period Jefferson reviews the extant sources on the 1765 Stamp Act crisis to aid William Wirt, a Patrick Henry scholar; records his largely positive impressions of George Washington; and updates a reading...