Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by Christina G. Villegas
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
A product of extremely humble birth, Alexander Hamilton rose to become one of America's leading political figures, helping to determine the direction of nearly all of the seminal events of the founding of the country. The author introduces, provides notes on, and critically evaluates approximately...
by Robert F Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
George Rogers Clarke was the hero of the Western Frontier during the American Revolutionary War, capturing virtually the entire Ohio Valley from the British with his victory at Fort Vincennes. This brief sketch outlines the glories of those battles and disappointments of Clarke's campaigns.
by Brett F. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Philosopher, diplomat, politician, inventor, writer, architect, even gardener, from a historical perspective Thomas Jefferson emerges as an extraordinary individual  one who was clearly many things to many people. But, too, precisely because of these same collective endeavors, he has become so much...
by Hassan Enrique Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Common Sense (Thomas Paine):Very popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for the Declaration of Independence. This very influential landmark document attacks the monarchy, cites...
America's Founding Fathers
Their Uncommon Wisdom and Wit
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. America’s Founding Fathers is centered on the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the exemplary men who founded our...
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76)
Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / pamphlets, articles, and letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I...
Wabash 1791
St Clair’s defeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
The battle of Wabash, or St. Clair's Massacre, was the greatest defeat of the American Army by Native American forces. The campaign opened in 1791, when an newly formed American Army, under the command of Revolutionary War hero, Arthur St. Clair, set off into the wilderness of Ohio in an effort to...
Kings Mountain and Cowpens
Our Victory Was Complete
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
From the rocky slopes of Kings Mountain to the plains of Hannah�s Cowpens, the Carolina backcountry hosted two of the Revolutionary War�s most critical battles. On October 7, 1780, the Battle of Kings Mountain utilized guerilla techniques�American Over Mountain Men wearing buckskin and hunting...
Divided Loyalties
How the American Revolution Came to New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Before the Civil War splintered the young country, there was another conflict that divided friends and family--the Revolutionary War
Prior to the French and Indian War, the British government had taken little interest in their expanding American empire. Years of neglect had allowed America's...
by Michael A. Shea
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In God We Trust: George Washington and the Spiritual Destiny of the United States of America, is a two-part book that documents numerous examples of God’s intercession in George Washington’s life, and in the history of the United States. The first part of the book, George Washington, is a providential...
Faces of Revolution
Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Stealing God's Thunder
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
“We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God’s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder...
by Eran Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers,...
Last Run of the Whisperer
A Story of a Soldier of the Connecticut Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
"Last Run of the Whisperer" is a historical fiction novel based upon the Revolutionary War records of William Waterman of Norwich, Connecticut colony. The author has taken the information that William Waterman has provided to us through his own account of his service in the American Revolution,...