Revolutionary category: 2684 books
By the Hand of Providence
How Faith Shaped the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, from the Declaration of Independence to the signing of Britain’s peace treaty.
From the author of Forged in Faith comes the remarkable untold history of how the faith of our fathers critically influenced the outcome of the...
Hannah Turner’S Journal
A Novel of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Hannah Turner could never have imagined that the squabbles of Boston merchants with England over tea and taxes would disturb her quiet, comfortable life in Philadelphia. When British and Hessian soldiers occupy her native city in 1777, Hannahs world is turned upside down. Hannahs father, Jacob, a...
by Kate Elizabeth Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans. Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American...
Through a Howling Wilderness
Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Newburyport, bound for the Maine wilderness. They were American colonists who had volunteered for a secret mission to paddle and march nearly two hundred miles through some of the wildest country in the colonies and seize the fortress city...
Braddock's Defeat
The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and while making their way to besiege...
Poisoned by Lies and Hypocrisy
America's First Attempt to Bring Liberty to Canada,1775-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Historian Gavin K. Watt offers a fresh interpretation of the 1775 Invasion of Canada.
In 1775, Governor Guy Carleton returned to Canada after a four-year absence in England to discover that political unrest in the American colonies was at a fever pitch. Soon after, open warfare erupted in Massachusetts,...
Ticonderoga Soldierelijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760
A Massachusetts Provincial Soldier in the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
The French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War), was fought between 1754 and 1763. One of the major battles in the North American campaign was fought at Fort Carillon, also known as Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga had been erected by the French in New York in 1755, on a site which...
American Spring
Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals
When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured...
The Framers' Coup
The Making of the United States Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local...
The American Commonwealth
Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined “the institutions and the people of America as they are.” Bryce presented his findings in The...
by Clement Fatovic
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality is the longest running war in American history. To defenders of the status quo, who argue that the accumulation of wealth free of government intervention is an essential...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs (11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The Declaration of Independence was a win for the US after years of battle. By knowing how our ancestors fought and forged our independence, we will be able to better appreciate and care for the freedom we experience today. This book is an eye opener and it comes with just the right mix of images and text. Grab a copy today!
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
One of Asia’s longest running communist insurrections ended on the night of April 16, 1989. Its cessation was not the outcome of a successful government offensive or of a generous amnesty policy, but of an all-out mutiny within the rank-and-file of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB). That night,...