Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Founding Fathers
The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
An authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nation
How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? How did thinkers from disparate backgrounds shape a government that transformed modern politics?...
The First Congress
How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This “fascinating” (Chicago Tribune), “lively” (The New York Times) history tells how the First Congress and the Washington administration created one of the most productive and far-reaching governments in American history—“gracefully written…and well worth reading” (The Wall Street...
Rivals Unto Death
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.
The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three...
Osage Women and Empire
Gender and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women....
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look...
Great Crossings
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty" as they went. Great Crossings also...
by Amy Knight
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a Soviet espionage network in North America. His defection - the first following the end of WWII, occurring less than a month after atomic bombs exploded...
The Skull of Alum Bheg
The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of...
by Lindsey German, John Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background.
Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground...
Slave Nation
How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
"A radical, well-informed, and highly original reinterpretation of the place of slavery in the American War of Independence."-David Brion Davis, Yale University
In 1772, the High Court in London brought about the conditions that would end slavery in England by freeing a black slave...
by Matthew Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?
America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy,...
by Brion McClanahan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Are liberals right when they cite the “elastic” clauses of the Constitution to justify big government? Or are conservatives right when they cite the Constitution’s explicit limits on federal power? The answer lies in a more basic question: How did the founding generation intend for us to interpret...
What is an Establishment of Religion?
Serial Antidisestablishmentarianism, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Excerpted from Antidisestablishmentarianism --
Hint. It's not what you think. It's a recipe for persecution, corruption and heresy. America's founding fathers understood that government must protect freedom, including the freedom to practice all religions. But they also understood that not all religions...
by Stephen Budiansky
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the legendary Royal Navy.
Budiansky vividly demonstrates that far from an indecisive and...