Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Abigail Adams
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early...
The Men Who Lost America
British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The Making of America
The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
The United States of America has been blessed with the world’s greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family—less than 6 percent—to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to create more than half of the world’s...
by Howard Fast
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1996
Originally published in 1972, The Hessian tells the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. At the heart of the story is a Quaker family, who hide the boy after his landing party has been killed in an ambush. Because the captain of the Hessians...
by Terry L. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In The U.S. Constitution & Fascinating Facts About It you'll see the entire text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence–and much more! You'll find interesting insights into the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution in the two centuries since its creation.
by David Barton
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This book is very timely for one of the most frequently debated issues in America: the separation of church and state. Where did this phrase originate? Was it always meant to prohibit expressions of religious faith in public settings as many claim today? Learn the answers to these questions and discover...
John Adams's Republic
The One, the Few, and the Many
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Scholars have examined John Adams’s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams’s Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades,...
by Peter A. Lillback, Jerry Newcombe
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
What sets "George Washington's Sacred Fire" apart from all previous works on this man for the ages, is the exhaustive fifteen years of Dr. Peter Lillback's research, revealing a unique icon driven by the highest of ideals. Only do George Washington's own writings, journals, letters, manuscripts, and...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
**A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATION
An authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philosophy. **
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers explain the complexities of a constitutional government—its...
Empowering Words
Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores...
The Jefferson Bible
Akashic U.S. Presidents Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.
Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American...
Protocols of Liberty
Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution,...
Against Self-Reliance
The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, writers,...
My American Revolution
A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. In My...