Revolutionary category: 2684 books
The Expanding Blaze
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas
The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences, by His Great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences, by His Great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I.
Jefferson's Birthplace.—Sketch...
Original Intent
The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
In their own words, the Supreme Court has become “a national theology board,” “a super board of education,” and amateur psychologists on a “psycho-journey.” The result has been a virtual rewriting of the liberties enumerated in the Constitution. A direct victim of this judicial micromanagement...
A Few Bloody Noses
The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
The ensuing uprising led to the creation of the United States, the most powerful country in the modern world. Robert Harvey, whose most recent book Liberators was brilliantly reviewed on both sides of the ocean, challenges conventional views of the American Revolution in almost every aspect-why it...
Zebulon Pike: Thomas Jefferson's Agent for Empire
Thomas Jefferson's Agent for Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Through careful examination of primary documents, this book reveals that the true purpose of Zebulon Pike's western expedition in 1806–1807 was not innocent exploration of the West but an espionage mission in preparation for an American invasion of New Mexico.
• Clarifies the true purpose...
by Caitlin Fitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.
In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
Rufus King
American Federalist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King's personality, outlook, and interests. Many little-known facets of King's life are illuminated, including his relationship to the Burr-Hamilton duel.
Originally...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Includes Revere's firsthand account of his midnight ride.*Includes Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride.*Includes pictures of Revere and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "Out started six officers, seized...
by John Quincy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.
The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities’ civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818–1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would...
Sons of the Father
George Washington and His Protégés
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Whether acting as a military officer or civilian officeholder, George Washington did not possess a reputation for glad handing, easy confidences, or even much warmth. His greatest attributes as a commander might well have been his firm command over his own emotions and the way in which he held himself...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Elizabeth Brown Pryor (March 15, 1951 – April 13, 2015) was an American diplomat and historian.
by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...