Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Charles Royster
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In Light Horse Harry Lee, Charles Royster tells the story of a man whose career embodies the visionary promises that inspired the American Revolution, as well as the inability of the revolutionary generation to put all its ideals into practice.
The man is Henry Lee—soldier (nicknamed “Light-Horse...
by Chris Coelho
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on vellum later in the month, and delegates began signing the finely penned document in early August. The man who read the Declaration and later embossed it—the...
Independence
The Struggle to Set America Free
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary effort,...
Liberty
Women and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era—women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen...
by Eric Hazan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history
In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan’s native Paris, where they...
Summary of The Quartet
by Joseph J. Ellis | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis | Summary & Analysis Preview: The Quartet is an historical account of the debates and events leading up to, during, and immediately following the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America. The quartet is four politicians that played...
Building the Land of Dreams
New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological...
Dunmore's New World
The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American...
Louisa
The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**From the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time **
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Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine...
The Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s...
by Donald J. Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Divisiveness is the hallmark of American politics today. Red state versus blue; liberal versus conservative; secular versus religious; the list goes on. Sometimes it seems we are no longer one nation, but in fact we are. Division and argument have always been a part of the American scene, no more...
by Paul Revere
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. I
From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
This first volume of Great Issues in American History -- three volumes of documents that cover the history of America from its settlement to the present -- gives us a generous sampling from the major political controversies in the Colonial period. Included are such documents as Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse...
by John Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
A Calm Address To Our America Colonies is an impassioned plea and argument by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for the people of America to submit to their 'mother country', and to cease from revolutionary attitudes and actions. In this fascinating history piece, Wesley argues against democracy...