Revolutionary category: 2684 books
General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution
From Redcoat to Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Brave, humane, and generous . . . still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country.
--Member of British Parliament Lord North, upon hearing of General Richard Montgomery's death in battle against the British
At 3 a.m. on December 31, 1775, a...
We the People High School Textbook
The Citizen and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches high school students about government and citizenship. Students explore the history and principles of constitutional democracy through critical-thinking exercises, cooperative-learning and participation in a simulated congressional hearing. The We the People textbook contains six units and 39 lessons.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Commemorating the October 2017 centenary of the Russian Revolution, an anthology of wide-ranging voices and scholarship throwing fresh light on this momentous historical event.
This October the world commemorates the centenary of the Russian Revolution, one of the crucial moments of the twentieth...
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration...
God's Secret Agents
Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic...
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local...
by Jeffrey Allen Zemler
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The strong relationship that historians have described between the South and the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century had its origins in the twenty-year period after the American Revolution when a group of far-sighted southerners, with James Madison in the forefront, worked to form...
Disunion!
The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting...
In the Name of the Father
Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred...
First Lady of Letters
Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness. Thanks to...
Founding Friendships
Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as...
Claiming the Pen
Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's...
Army of the Night
The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured to death by Klaus Barbie, the infamous 'Butcher of Lyon', is revered alongside that of other national icons. But Moulin's...
by Sergei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii Stepniak
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Anyone interested in or wishing to understand the roots of Putin’s ultra-nationalist Russia (and his territorial ambitions!) woild do well to read Ukranian nihilist Sergei Stepniak’s compelling study of The Russian Peasantry. Written over 120 years ago it helps explain not only the social plight...