Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
The Whiskey Rebellion
Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 1988
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale...
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In 1776, when the Continental Congress declared independence, formally severing relations with Great Britain, it immediately began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. In this marvelous social and cultural history of the Continental...
The First Emancipator
The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed...
Founders as Fathers
The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to...
Mary Ball Washington
The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
The Mother of the Father of our Country.
Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history’s most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington’s first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother.
Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Thomas Jefferson: His Essential Wisdom invites readers to consider the man who, perhaps more than any other in our nation's history, personifies the spirit of enlightened and revolutionary ideas that formed the basis of what the Founding Fathers called the "American experiment."This collection gathers...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
James Wilkinson has been maligned throughout American History as a schemer and an unscrupulous individual. My e-book looks at many incidents in his military career that earned him the reputation as a blackhearted treacherous figure. There are so many instances where he ingratiated himself with superiors...
Humboldt and Jefferson
A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through...
Taming Lust
Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced...
by Richard Buel Jr., Jeffers Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The drafting and ratification of the federal constitution between 1787 and 1788 capped almost 30 years of revolutionary turmoil and warfare. The supporters of the new constitution, known at the time as Federalists, looked to the new national government to secure the achievements of the Revolution....
A Devil of a Whipping
The Battle of Cowpens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command...
The War for American Independence: A Reference Guide
A Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
An indispensable resource for investigating America's War for Independence, this book provides a comprehensive yet concise narrative that combines the author's original perspectives with the latest scholarship on the subject.
• Offers readers an incisive view of the ferocity of the war and...
The Miracle of American Independence
Twenty Ways Things Could Have Turned Out Differently
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Although American independence was no miracle, the timing of the country’s independence and its huge scope, both political and territorial, do seem miraculous. In The Miracle of American Independence Jonathan R. Dull reconstructs significant events before, during, and after the Revolutionary War...
Spain and the Independence of the United States
An Intrinsic Gift
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, provision of supplies, and money, Spain helped the young British colonies succeed in becoming an independent nation. Soldiers were recruited from all over...