Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by A. J. Langguth
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution—the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom.
George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry—these...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
*Comprehensively covers the lives and careers of Jefferson and Madison from before the Revolution to their presidencies. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Looks at the influences on the political philosophies of the two architects of the Democratic-Republican Party*Discusses...
by Theodore P. Savas, J. David Dameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
“A well-organized and concise introduction to the war’s major battles” (The Journal of America’s Military Past).
Winner of the Gold Star Book Award for History from the Military Writers Society of America
This is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution,...
The Winning of the West (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Part IV; The Indian Wars, 1784-1787; Franklin, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In this fourth volume of Roosevelt’s engrossing The Winning of the West series, he looks to the rugged frontier. His description of all the American west witnessed from 1784 to 1787—an inrush of settlers, the Indian Wars, the routing of the Mississippi, the Separatist Movement, Kentucky’s struggle to become a state, and more—is simply gripping.
The Road to Disunion
Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 1991
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers,...
The Everything Founding Fathers Book
All you need to know about the men who shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
George Washington. John Adams. Benjamin Franklin. These great leaders--and many others--made innumerable contributions that laid the groundwork for our nation. But who were they really?
In actuality, the founding fathers were a diverse group of men and not the homogenous collection history...
by W.C. Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Two subjects continue to fascinate people—the Old West and a good mystery. This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old West's most baffling mysteries, which lure the curious and beg for investigation even though their solutions have eluded experts for decades. Many relate to the death...
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and...
James Madison
A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison's role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia,...
The Everything U.S. Constitution Book
An easy-to-understand explanation of the foundation of American government
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Debates over constitutional rights impact you every day as an American citizen. But do you know what the U.S. Constitution actually says? This accessible guide contains the complete text of the Constitution, with short, descriptive margin notes throughout. Articles and amendments are then analyzed...
Prison and Plantation
Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of...
Antebellum Women
Private, Public, Partisan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question...
Inventing a Nation
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.In Inventing a Nation, Vidal...
by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic...