Revolutionary category: 2684 books

The period between 1775 and 1815 could be called the “critical period” of American foreign relations. At no time in American history was the existence of the republic in greater physical peril. Questions of foreign policy dominated American public life in a way unequalled until World War II. From...

Lives of Signers of the Declaration of Independence is a classic history of the Founding Fathers.

How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American...

The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...

What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship...

A complete record of the lectures on slavery in the United States of America delivered to the classes in Moral Science at the Randolph Macon College during the mid-nineteenth century, when abolitionism was at it’s height and before the American Civil War had begun. The premise of the lectures is that slavery is right, and is a fundamental principle of the social state.

**Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books** Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already...

"A masterly quarter-century of commentary on the discipline of American history."—Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review "This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy...

The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it was often through the political sermon that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. Political sermons such as the fifty-five...

No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture?...

The Journal of Thomas Jefferson's Life and Times is theme-based with each issue featuring a different Jeffersonian subject. The subjects relate to each other in the sense that the discussions in earlier issues provide insights into discussions in later issues. As in Jefferson’s life, one interest...

The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont.  It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume....

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces...

**Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award** The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution...