Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Michael Pye
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
*A New York Times Notable Book*
An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea.
Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals:...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century enlightenment Philosopher and author Thomas Paine. The first volume begins with the famous words "These are the times that try men's souls". There were sixteen pamphlets...
by Sharon M. Harris, Various
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
This fascinating collection presents a rare look at women writers' first-hand perspectives on early American history. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many women authors began to write historical analysis, thereby taking on an essential role in defining the new American Republicanism....
The Men Behind the Legacy - Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Complete Biographies, Speeches, Articles & Historical Records
Including the Constitution of the United States, Articles of Confederation, First Drafts of The Declaration of Independence and Other Decisive Historical Documents
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
This collection presents you with the biographies of fifty-eight individuals, some of them famous names, some forgotten men of the past, but all crucial in the accomplishment of a single object, the independence of the United State: Thomas Jefferson John Hancock Benjamin Franklin Roger Sherman Edward...
Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)
Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1984
The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography," "Notes on the State of Virginia," public and private papers, including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence, addresses, and 287 letters.
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by Paul M. Zall
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Although he called himself merely a "printer" in his will, Benjamin Franklin could have also called himself a diplomat, a doctor, an electrician, a frontier general, an inventor, a journalist, a legislator, a librarian, a magistrate, a postmaster, a promoter, a publisher -- and a humorist....
George Washington's War
The Saga of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
They called themselves Loyalists. The rebels called them Tories. This derogatory term had previously been reserved for the supporters of the predominantly Catholic line of Stuart kings, whose reign ended in England's bloodless revolution of 1688. For well over 100 years, it was the fashion among American...
by Philip Guedalla
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was the outstanding soldier of his age. He joined the army and rose rapidly to command a Division in India. After great military and administrative success, he was knighted on his return to England in 1805, and in 1809 this ‘sepoy general’...
Magna Carta
The Birth of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
**"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." —Antonia Fraser
From the New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history...
The Washingtons: A Family History
Volume 3: Royal Descents of the Presidential Branch
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This Royal Descents supplement is an outgrowth of the author’s multi-volume family history of the “Presidential Branch” of the Washingtons. That work collects the descendants of the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather...
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).
Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman...
The 10 Big Lies About America
Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”
In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten...
by Sharon Block
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.
Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more...