Revolutionary category: 2684 books
American Treasures
The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's...
by Joshua Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries
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The subsequent collection of facts is presented to your notice, with the hope that they will have that effect...
Tea Leaves
Being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Tea Leaves
Being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company;
Now first printed from the original manuscript. with an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party.
This...
Jefferson on Freedom
Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Thomas Jefferson is most famous for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which espouses the general principles of freedom and democracies that Americans hold dear. Now, collected here for the first time, is this historical American document, as well as several of his other famous writings....
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
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...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.
Now, Penguin...
To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
Selected Writings of Gouverneur Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris’s writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published.
Morris served as Deputy Superintendent...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787–1788, John Bach McMaster, a professor of American history, and Frederick D. Stone, librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, assembled newspaper articles, editorials, and records about the debates in Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention....
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamiltons (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...
Essential Documents of American History, Volume I
From Colonial Times to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and...
The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
America's most controversial founder—in his own words
A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington’s right-hand man. A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson’s bitter rival. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life...
A Great and Good Man
George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2007
A Great and Good Man presents a lively collection of contemporary letters, poems, addresses, and newspaper reports that demonstrate the remarkable esteem in which Washington was held. Washington would become, after his death, a true symbol of the American republic. This selection of materials, many...
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
by Catherine McGrew Jaime
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
As we move closer to a presidential election we often start to pay closer attention to the act of electing a president - the primaries and caucuses and then the electoral college.
But how did we come to this point? What is the constitutional background of the Executive Branch? What did the...