Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests...
A Necessary Evil
A History of American Distrust of Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American...
by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or...
Founding Finance
How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both...
The American Revolution of 1800
How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—and What This Means Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson provides the definitive window into key concepts that have formed the backdrop of our democracy: the nature of revolution, stewardship of power, liberty, and the ever-present danger of factions and tyranny. Most contemporary historians celebrate Jefferson’s...
The American Reader
A Brief Guide to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The three most important documents in American history—expanded and explained.
In the centuries since the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, as well as its Bill of the Rights, the liberties set forth within these documents have faced many...
For Liberty and Equality
The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most influential documents in modern history-the inspiration for what would become the most powerful democracy in the world. Indeed, at every stage of American history, the Declaration has been a touchstone for evaluating the legitimacy of legal, social,...
Liberty's Blueprint
How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy S
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Aside from the Constitution itself, there is no more important document in American politics and law than the Federalist Papers—the series of pamphlets written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to explain the meaning of the proposed Constitution to the American people and persuade them of...
Beyond Confederation
Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Beyond Confederation scrutinizes the ideological background of the U.S. Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it both faced and provoked immediately after ratification. The essays in this collection question much of the heritage of eighteenth-century constitutional...
Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed
For three crucial years in the 1930s,...
I COULDN’T PAINT GOLDEN ANGELS
Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Albert Meltzer (1920–1996) was involved, actively, in class struggles since the age of 15; exceptional for his generation in having been a convinced anarchist from the start, without any family background in such activity. A lively, witty account of sixty years in anarchist activism, and a unique...
by Buffalo Bill
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. "Buffalo Bill" got his nickname after the American Civil War, when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody...
by Buffalo Bill
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. "Buffalo Bill" got his nickname after the American Civil War, when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody...
Blacksnake?s Path
The True Adventures of William Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This splendid novel about an unsung hero of American history carries its prodigious learning lightly in order to tell vividly the authentic story of William Wells’s remarkable life. Blacksnake’s Path recreates an entire period (1770-1812), showing how the Indians lived, fought for their homeland,...