Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
A Few Bloody Noses
The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
The ensuing uprising led to the creation of the United States, the most powerful country in the modern world. Robert Harvey, whose most recent book Liberators was brilliantly reviewed on both sides of the ocean, challenges conventional views of the American Revolution in almost every aspect-why it...
Zebulon Pike: Thomas Jefferson's Agent for Empire
Thomas Jefferson's Agent for Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Through careful examination of primary documents, this book reveals that the true purpose of Zebulon Pike's western expedition in 1806–1807 was not innocent exploration of the West but an espionage mission in preparation for an American invasion of New Mexico.
• Clarifies the true purpose...
by Caitlin Fitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.
In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
Rufus King
American Federalist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King's personality, outlook, and interests. Many little-known facets of King's life are illuminated, including his relationship to the Burr-Hamilton duel.
Originally...
by John Quincy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.
The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works...
Sons of the Father
George Washington and His Protégés
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Whether acting as a military officer or civilian officeholder, George Washington did not possess a reputation for glad handing, easy confidences, or even much warmth. His greatest attributes as a commander might well have been his firm command over his own emotions and the way in which he held himself...
By the Hand of Providence
How Faith Shaped the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, from the Declaration of Independence to the signing of Britain’s peace treaty.
From the author of Forged in Faith comes the remarkable untold history of how the faith of our fathers critically influenced the outcome of the...
Hannah Turner’S Journal
A Novel of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Hannah Turner could never have imagined that the squabbles of Boston merchants with England over tea and taxes would disturb her quiet, comfortable life in Philadelphia. When British and Hessian soldiers occupy her native city in 1777, Hannahs world is turned upside down. Hannahs father, Jacob, a...
by Kate Elizabeth Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans. Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American...
Ticonderoga Soldierelijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760
A Massachusetts Provincial Soldier in the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
The French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War), was fought between 1754 and 1763. One of the major battles in the North American campaign was fought at Fort Carillon, also known as Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga had been erected by the French in New York in 1755, on a site which...
The Framers' Coup
The Making of the United States Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local...
The American Commonwealth
Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined “the institutions and the people of America as they are.” Bryce presented his findings in The...
by Clement Fatovic
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality is the longest running war in American history. To defenders of the status quo, who argue that the accumulation of wealth free of government intervention is an essential...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs (11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth...