Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Founding Mothers
The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve...
by Paul S. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating...
The Unknown American Revolution
The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to...
America, Empire of Liberty
A New History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A magisterial history of the United States by a prize-winning historian
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written."
--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great "empire...
The British Are Coming
The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history form the enduring legacy of America’s Founding Fathers including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution...
Washington
The Indispensable Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This “perceptive” and “satisfying” biography of George Washington by an award-winning historian “deserves a place on every American’s bookshelf” (The New York Times Book Review).
James Thomas Flexner’s masterful four-volume biography of America’s first president, which received...
The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification Vol. 1 (LOA #62)
September 1787-February 1788
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Here, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, is the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign: During the secret proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a fundamentally new national plan to replace the Articles of Confederation...
Bring Out Your Dead
The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your...
The Federalist & The Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Collection
Including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Important Documents by the Founding Fathers & more
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook: "Federalist & The Anti-Federalist Papers" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This collection contains the crucial decisions and arguments of the Founding Fathers which shaped the America we know today. Along with...
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the...
by Louis B. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
If the origin of the colonial period was accidental, the ending was not. The representatives of the thirteen colonies who approved the Declaration of Independence in 1776 charted a collision course, aware of the obstacles in their path and the risks they were taking. The events that led to their decision...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated,...
A Brilliant Solution
Inventing the American Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2003
We know--and love--the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. But our first government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis. So when a group of men traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to save a nation in danger of...