Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Sons of Providence
The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In 1774, as the new world simmered with tensions that would lead to the violent birth of a new nation, two Rhode Island brothers were heading toward their own war over the issue that haunts America to this day: slavery.
Set against a colonial backdrop teeming with radicals and reactionaries,...
The Storm Gathering
The Penn Family and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1992
Treese's book provides a popular history of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period from the vantage point of the heirs of William Penn.
Most Pennsylvanians are familiar with the story of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a haven for religious dissenters. But few...
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed—a name few know today—was one of the most politically important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise “The Sentiments of an American Woman” articulated the aspirations of female patriots, and the Ladies Association of...
Setting the World Ablaze
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2000
Setting the World Ablaze is the story of the American Revolution and of the three Founders who played crucial roles in winning the War of Independence and creating a new nation: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Braiding three strands into one rich narrative, John Ferling brings...
The Making of a Patriot
Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
On January 29, 1774, Benjamin Franklin was called to appear before the Privy Council--a select group of the king's advisors--in an octagonal-shaped room in Whitehall Palace known as the Cockpit. Spurred by jeers and applause from the audience in the Cockpit, Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn...
by Edgar Stanton Maclay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historians tell us that the United States Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. But was it?
In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government employed a total 70 warships, carrying 1,800 guns and swivels. In those same two wars there were 1,300 privateers operating with almost 16,000...
Blood of Revolution
From the Reign of Terror to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
In this fascinating book, the author of The Hinge Factor and The Weather Factor surveys revolutions across the centuries, vividly portraying the people and events that brought wrenching, often enduring—and always bloody—change to countries and societies almost overnight. Durschmied begins with...
by Mike Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“Zeroes in on the interesting, irreverent, long-ignored tidbits that shape behavior in all conflicts and important periods of history.”—The Denver Post
What made the founding fathers so great (or were they?). And don’t forget the founding mothers. We have intrigue and skullduggery...
Henry Knox
Visionary General of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won back the city) and the Battle of Trenton (where he was...
Washington's Revolution
The Making of America's First Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.
George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind...
George Washington
The Life & Times of George Washington – Complete Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
George Washington (1732-1799) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and...
New American Revolution Handbook
Facts and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
WINNER FOR REFERENCE, 2010, ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISED BOOK
This remarkable new handbook makes studying the Revolutionary War simple and pleasurable. The authors use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, tables,...
Stalin
The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar [Fully Illustrated]
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics was to become his religion and between 1902 and 1913 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Siberia eight times, escaping on seven...
America's Jubilee
A Generation Remembers the Revolution After 50 Years of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
InAmerica's Jubilee distinguished historian Andrew Burstein presents an engrossing narrative that takes us back to a pivotal year in American history, 1826, when the reins of democracy were being passed from the last Revolutionary War heroes to a new generation of leaders.
Through brilliant...