Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Damned Nation
Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never...
The Federalist
The Gideon Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Written and published in newspapers in 1787 and 1788 to explain and promote ratification of the proposed Constitution for the United States, which were then bound by...
Masterless Mistresses
The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance...
by Sydney George Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
by John Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
It is always difficult in history to mark the beginning and end of a period. Events keep rushing on and do not pause to be divided into chapters; or, in other words, in the history which really takes place, a new chapter is always beginning long before the old one is ended. The divisions we make when...
Calvin Coolidge on the Founders
Reflections on the American Revolution & The Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
In these pages Silent Cal Coolidge focuses his famed terse eloquence on the nation's founders, not merely on George Washington's indispensable figure but also on:
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Alexander Hamilton
Washington's fellow Virginia patriots
...
History of the United States During Thomas Jefferson's Administrations (All 4 Volumes)
The Inauguration, American Ideals, Closure of the Mississippi, Monroe's Diplomacy, Legislation, The Louisiana Debate, Peace of Amiens, Relations With England and France, The Rise of a British Party
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The presidency of Thomas Jefferson began on March 4, 1801, when he was inaugurated as the third President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1809. In domestic affairs Jefferson sought to put the principles of republicanism into action. In foreign affairs, the major developments were the acquisition...
by Terrence Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Did the American people suddenly become independent on July 4, 1776, or is there something more to our shared history?
History books tend to simplify the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, but not Grandpa! Terrence Hagen wants his grandchildrenand everyone elseto know exactly...
by James L Stokesbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself -- the campaigns...
by Heather Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese...
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1978
This volume presents an eminent historian's progress over thirty years in trying to understand the American Revolution. Here is the historian at his best—beginning with the assumption that things are not always as they appear to be, delighting in the discovery of the previously unknown, and offering...
Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution
Loyalist Tales from New York to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In 1778, New York State Patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario and Quebec. Many of the defiant young British Americans soon returned south as soldiers, spies and scouts to fight for their multigenerational farms along the Mohawk River, Lake Champlain...
by Piers Mackesy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world war. England was also pitted against France and...
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Although floods rarely get as much coverage as other kinds of natural disasters like volcanic explosions, the Johnstown Flood of 1889 has remained an exception due to the sheer destruction and magnitude of the disaster. On May 31, 1889, Johnstown became a casualty of a combination of heavy rains and...