Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Davidson Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
In 1826, Thomas Jefferson was laid to rest at Monticello beside his wife and daughters. His epitaph, which he composed, reads, "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University...
The Last Founding Father
James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America's fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James Monroe (1758-1831)-the last...
by Henry Moscow
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
President Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Declaration of Independence, but he also was an anthropologist, architect, astronomer, botanist, diplomat, farmer, inventor, lawyer, mathematician, and musician. He spoke French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. He founded the University of Virginia and...
Exploring Lewis and Clark
Reflections on Men and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted...
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...
The Benjamin Franklin Anthology
The Autobiography, The Memoirs, The Silence Dogood Letters and Over 80 Other Works.
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Of all the 'Founding Fathers' of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin left the greatest literary legacy behind him. A noted polymath, as well as a prolific author and printer, Franklin's works span an astonishing array of genres - from his groundbreaking scientific work on electricity,...
Martha Washington
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated...
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism
In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund...
American Patriots
Answering the Call to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The United States of America was founded and established by ordinary citizens just like you and me. In their struggle for independence, these heroic men and women willingly shed their blood, sweat, and tears—often sacrificing their own lives and fortunes in order to hand down the precious legacy...
The Loyal Son
The War in Ben Franklin's House
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution—from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns.
Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America’s founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness—even his grandfatherly...
Daniel Boone
The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1993
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993
In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps...
The Road to Monticello
The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of...
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the...
First Family
Abigail and John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.
John and Abigail Adams left an indelible...