Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Nathan Hale
The Life and Death of America's First Spy
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Although famous for his purported last words—“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”—few people know the real Nathan Hale. M. William Phelps brings into focus the life of this famed patriot and first spy of the American Revolution, charting Hale’s rural childhood,...
Shays’ Settlement in Vermont
A Story of Revolt and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The ruins of Daniel Shays's fortified settlement reveal the hidden story of the famous rebellion. Shays and the Regulators founded the settlement deep in the Vermont wilderness after fleeing the uprising they led in 1787 in Massachusetts. Rediscovered in 1997 and under study since 2013, these remnants...
by Gajanan Khirao
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
In Ancient America ,People from different part of Africa -Asia were migrated to many region of America ,They settled their life by hunting animals and developing societies between 2000 Bce to 8000 Bce ago. They were used different small animals like pigs, dogs as food for living, that time farming...
Fort Halifax
Winslow's Historic Outpost
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Winslow has grown up around Fort Halifax in its many, many incarnations. Beginning as a French and Indian War garrison and trading post, the fort welcomed historic figures from Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr to Paul Revere and Chief Joseph Orono. Reduced to one small blockhouse in the 1800s, Fort Halifax...
Tories
Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
From historian Thomas B. Allen, author of Remember Pearl Harbor and George Washington, Spy Master comes a sweeping, dramatic history of the Americans who fought alongside the British on the losing side of the American Revolution. Allen’s compelling account comprises an epic story with a personal...
by Arthur Scherr
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Providing the first full investigation of second U.S. president John Adams' attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and the Haitian Revolution, this iconoclastic study illuminates the inner and outer worlds of Adams for scholars and general readers.
• Supplies a knowledge of John Adams' views—information...
My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together
Thomas Paine and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
It is the study of how Thomas Paine's religious beliefs shaped his political ideology and influenced his political activism.
"In the Hands of a Good Providence"
Religion in the Life of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Attempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict these claims, are nothing new. Particularly after Washington was no longer around to refute them, legends of his Baptist baptism or secret conversion to Catholicism...
Among the Powers of the Earth
The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Revolution’s aspiration was summed up by the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Yet the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations. According to Eliga Gould, America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become an Atlantic colonizing power itself.
Evangelical Gotham
Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce,...
by W.B. Hartgrove
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
With biographical information about the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. W. B. Hartgrove was known for his early 20th-century "Journal of Negro History." This short volume is an article about African American soldiers during the fight for independence. "Most of...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Americas most important men and women in the time it takes to finish...
Mongrel Nation
The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In this brief manuscript, Clarence Walker uses the Jefferson/Hemings liaison as a point of departure for a series of historical reflections on race, sex, and nation in the Americas. His basic argument, evident in the attached, is that America has been a multiracial society from colonial times, but...
Popular Media and the American Revolution
Shaping Collective Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The American Revolution—an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins—continues to live on in the public's memory, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays. But to identify as an...