Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
We the People High School Textbook
The Citizen and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches high school students about government and citizenship. Students explore the history and principles of constitutional democracy through critical-thinking exercises, cooperative-learning and participation in a simulated congressional hearing. The We the People textbook contains six units and 39 lessons.
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local...
In the Name of the Father
Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred...
Claiming the Pen
Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's...
American Treasures
The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's...
Jefferson on Freedom
Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Thomas Jefferson is most famous for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which espouses the general principles of freedom and democracies that Americans hold dear. Now, collected here for the first time, is this historical American document, as well as several of his other famous writings....
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Here, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, is the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign: During the secret proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a fundamentally new national plan to replace the Articles of Confederation...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.
Now, Penguin...
Essential Documents of American History, Volume I
From Colonial Times to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and...
A Great and Good Man
George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2007
A Great and Good Man presents a lively collection of contemporary letters, poems, addresses, and newspaper reports that demonstrate the remarkable esteem in which Washington was held. Washington would become, after his death, a true symbol of the American republic. This selection of materials, many...
by Catherine McGrew Jaime
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
As we move closer to a presidential election we often start to pay closer attention to the act of electing a president - the primaries and caucuses and then the electoral college.
But how did we come to this point? What is the constitutional background of the Executive Branch? What did the...
The Federalist
The Gideon Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Written and published in newspapers in 1787 and 1788 to explain and promote ratification of the proposed Constitution for the United States, which were then bound by...
Masterless Mistresses
The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance...
by Sydney George Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.