Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution
Cities and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics debated the issues of the day in taverns and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work historian Benjamin L. Carp...
Revolution Against Empire
Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representationRevolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage...
No Property in Man
Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.
The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked...
George Washington's Secret Six
The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355
“This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded
When...
Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court
American Encounters with Victoria and Albert
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in...
How George Washington Fleeced the Nation
And Other Little Secrets Airbrushed From History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Our view of the famous is one-dimensional—leading figures from history are summarized in history textbooks with one or two lines: Churchill the war-time genius, Gandhi the poor ascetic—but nobody is perfect and even the famous have their quirks and hidden secrets. How George Washington Fleeced...
Washington's Farewell
The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
“A vivid portrait…and thoughtful consideration of George Washington’s wisdom that couldn’t be timelier” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A revealing look at the first President’s Farewell Address, a still-relevant warning against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.
George...
Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests...
A Necessary Evil
A History of American Distrust of Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American...
by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or...
The American Reader
A Brief Guide to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The three most important documents in American history—expanded and explained.
In the centuries since the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, as well as its Bill of the Rights, the liberties set forth within these documents have faced many...
For Liberty and Equality
The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most influential documents in modern history-the inspiration for what would become the most powerful democracy in the world. Indeed, at every stage of American history, the Declaration has been a touchstone for evaluating the legitimacy of legal, social,...
Liberty's Blueprint
How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy S
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Aside from the Constitution itself, there is no more important document in American politics and law than the Federalist Papers—the series of pamphlets written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to explain the meaning of the proposed Constitution to the American people and persuade them of...