Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Washington's Circle
The Creation of the President
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation’s first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them.
In 1789, as...
How the Irish Won the American Revolution
A New Look at the Forgotten Heroes of America's War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling country were from Ireland. By 1790, close to 500,000 Irish citizens had immigrated to America. They were was very active in the American Revolution, both...
Bugles, Boots, and Saddles
Exploits of the U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A history of America’s military on horseback.
For three thousand years, the horse soldier has played a key role in both war fighting and in peace keeping all over the world, not only as a highly mobile strike force in battle but also as an instrument of reconnaissance and occupation, exploration,...
The Epic of New York City
A Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In swift, witty chapters that flawlessly capture the pace and character of New York City, acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis presents his masterpiece: a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of America's largest metropolis. Ellis narrates some of the most significant events of the past three...
The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American...
Ten Tea Parties
Patriotic Protests That History Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Everyone knows the story of the Boston Tea Party—in which colonists stormed three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. But do you know the history of the Philadelphia Tea Party (December 1773)? How about the York, Maine, Tea Party (September 1774) or the Wilmington,...
by Benjamin Tallmadge
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Only 21 at the start of the America's Revolutionary War, Benjamin Tallmadge was an enthusiastic patriot. Appointed by George Washington to organize intelligence in British-occupied New York, Tallmadge formed the famous Culper Spy Ring, whom he mentions in this volume without giving names.
Scenes of...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1986
This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman.
Here...
Black Patriots and Loyalists
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks...
Summary and Analysis of Benjamin Franklin
Based on the Book by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Benjamin Franklin tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Walter Isaacson’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
The Marketplace of Revolution
How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
by Robert A. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
American Aristocrats
A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism
American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning...
Martha Jefferson
An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Martha Jeffersonis the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources—including family letters, documents, and the handwritten notes left by Jefferson’s...