Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Popular Justice
A History of Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by "ordinary" people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better...
American Insurgents, American Patriots
The Revolution of the People
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm families living in small communities—were...
by Franklin Hanford
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
A paper read before the Scottsville Literary Society, January 22, 1917.
by S. E. Winbolt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuable—nay, an indispensable—adjunct to the history lesson. It is capable of two main uses: either by way of lively illustration...
Theologies of the American Revivalists
From Whitefield to Finney
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
For centuries, revivals—and the conversions they inspire—have played a significant role in American evangelicalism. Often unnoticed or unconsidered, however, are the particular theologies underlying these revivals and conversions to faith. With that in mind, church historian Robert Caldwell traces...
Establishing Religious Freedom
Jefferson's Statute in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book, Thomas Buckley tells the story of the statute,...
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War
The Bible and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. "God Almighty, with all the...
Strangers and Pilgrims
Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times...
American Saint
Francis Asbury and the Methodists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and...
by SparkNotes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The Articles of Confederation (1781-1789) (SparkNotes History Note)
Making the reading experience fun!
SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing on individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into digestible lessons,...
The Blessings of Liberty
A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time in defining the powers of government...
The Devil and Doctor Dwight
Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight--poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College--waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of "infidelity." The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the...
American Expansionism, 1783-1860
A Manifest Destiny?
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This new Seminar Study surveys the history of U.S. territorial expansion from the end of the American Revolution until 1860.
The book explores the concept of 'manifest destiny' and asks why, if expansion was 'manifest', there was such opposition to almost every expansionist incident. Paying...
Soldiers for Sale
German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. The British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America. It also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens who had only just been taken...