Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Philip J. Greven, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family writing of the 17th and 18th centuries—Philip Greven, the distinguished scholar of colonial history explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared, and the...
by Mark David Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the...
Miracles of the American Revolution
Divine Intervention and the Birth of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Was the birth of the Republic an accident of history or part of a divine plan?Is God on America's side?Is it possible a providential hand intervened at critical junctures during the American Revolution?Larkin Spivey, a decorated Marine Corps officer and respected military professor,...
Founding Sins
How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. For two centuries they decried the fact that, in their view, the United States was not a Christian nation because slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. Having once ruled Scotland as a part of a Presbyterian...
The Reshaping of Everyday Life
1790-1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
Forged in Faith
How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview motivated America’s founding fathers, influenced...
Freedom’s Prophet
Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
An Interview with the Author on the History News Network
A Founding Father with a Vision of Equality: Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Author Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"Gold" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography...
Hurricane of Independence
The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season
On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial...
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now...
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
This is the 8th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-episode serial by Serial Box in partnership with The Associated Press.
They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood together...
The Washingtons: A Family History
Volume 2: Notable Members of the Presidential Branch
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This is the second volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued...
by Alfonso Domingo
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A portrait of Melchor Rodríguez García (also known as El Ángel Rojo - Red Angel; 1893, —February 14, 1972), a former bullfighter, was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist of the CNT - FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation), and the Director-General of Prisons in Madrid during the Spanish...
A Leap in the Dark
The Struggle to Create the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations....
A Wilderness So Immense
The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In A Wilderness so Immense*,* historian Jon Kukla recounts the fascinating tale of the personal maneuverings, political posturing, and international intrigue that culminated in the greatest land deal in history. Spanning nearly two decades, Kukla’s book brings to life a pageant of characters from...