Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by Paul R. Misencik
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful young lady with beguiling eyes. A 1779 Valentine poem from an admiring British officer reads: “Thou know’st what powerful magick lies Within the round of Sarah’s eyes.” She was the sister of Robert Townsend,...
by Peter S. Onuf
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political...
State and Citizen
British America and the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship. The volume’s distinguished contributors cast...
Invisible Sovereign
Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
From The Louisiana Purchase
Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity. . . . Thomas Jefferson would have been less than human had he not claimed a major share of the credit. In a private letter...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
With the War for Independence not long past, the United States found itself battling Native Americans in the West. With the encouragement of the British, the Indians were brutally massacring settlers and soldiers by the thousands. Enter "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a highly disciplined leader who...
The Great Divide
The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Most Americans are unaware of this historical reality. History tends to cast the early years of America in a glow of camaraderie, but there were many conflicts between the Founding Fathers-and none more important than the clash between Washington...
Wellspring of Liberty
How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject...
The Bill of Rights
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.
An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens.**
In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history...
African Muslims in Antebellum America
Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A condensation and updating of his African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, documents, maps, and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the slave trade between 1730 and 1860. Also includes five maps.
Beyond the Farm
National Ambitions in Rural New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries...
From Empire to Humanity
The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship. They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made donations for faraway members...
by Ken Cascone
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
River of Triumph This is the tale of America’s founding as a nation against incredible odds. Clashes among rebels, Tories, and redcoats resound in vivid battles and on daring covert missions in the Hudson Valley and along Long Island Sound. Geographically paralleling the historical narrative, a contemporary...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The war was raging all around him. Johnny was only twelve years old, so he wasn’t allowed to pick up a gun or to be a soldier. However, he still had a very important job on the battlefield: he was the messenger for American Major General Gates. While he waited for the scouts to come back with their...