Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The Declaration of Independence was a win for the US after years of battle. By knowing how our ancestors fought and forged our independence, we will be able to better appreciate and care for the freedom we experience today. This book is an eye opener and it comes with just the right mix of images and text. Grab a copy today!
Bacteria and Bayonets
The Impact of Disease in American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier....
Eleven Exiles
Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America. Eleven Exiles reflects the major themes of those turbulent...
by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard Beeman
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history,...
Common Sense Nation
Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This sentence is perfectly familiar. We know it as a core principle of our founding....
Inventing a Christian America
The Myth of the Religious Founding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation....
by Mark David Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the...
Miracles of the American Revolution
Divine Intervention and the Birth of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Was the birth of the Republic an accident of history or part of a divine plan?Is God on America's side?Is it possible a providential hand intervened at critical junctures during the American Revolution?Larkin Spivey, a decorated Marine Corps officer and respected military professor,...
Founding Sins
How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. For two centuries they decried the fact that, in their view, the United States was not a Christian nation because slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. Having once ruled Scotland as a part of a Presbyterian...
The Reshaping of Everyday Life
1790-1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
Forged in Faith
How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview motivated America’s founding fathers, influenced...
Freedom’s Prophet
Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
An Interview with the Author on the History News Network
A Founding Father with a Vision of Equality: Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Author Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"Gold" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography...
The Washingtons: A Family History
Volume 2: Notable Members of the Presidential Branch
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This is the second volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued...
A Wilderness So Immense
The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In A Wilderness so Immense*,* historian Jon Kukla recounts the fascinating tale of the personal maneuverings, political posturing, and international intrigue that culminated in the greatest land deal in history. Spanning nearly two decades, Kukla’s book brings to life a pageant of characters from...