Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by Benson Bobrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Independence and eventual victory and liberty, recounted by Benson Bobrick, lauded by The New York Times as “perhaps the most interesting historian writing...
The American Revolution (Vol. 1&2)
Battle for American Independence: From the Rejection of the Stamp Act Until the Final Victory
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book is a thorough history of the American Revolution from the beginning of the crisis between American colonies and the British government until the final victories in the War which brought independence to America. Contents: The Beginnings The Crisis The Continental Congress Independence First...
Stop the Revolution
America in the Summer of Independence and the Conference for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The fascinating story surrounding the British effort to bring the American Revolution to a peaceful end.
The Art of Virtue
Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
An indispensable guide to right living from a Founding Father.
Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s most revered founders, was a man of uncommonly fine common sense. Although he was never able to finish his project of compiling a comprehensive compendium of practical wisdom, he was able to lay...
by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A collection of writings by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America containing: The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton & John Jay & James Madison The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Franklin told the story of his life, as he himself says, for the benefit of his posterity. He wanted to help them by the relation of his own rise from obscurity and poverty to eminence and wealth. He is not unmindful of the importance of his public services and their recognition, yet his accounts...
American Tempest
How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many dressed as Indians, dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half...
America's First Dynasty
The Adamses, 1735-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
They were America's longest lasting dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family our nation has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries -- from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to...
by Richard Brookhiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In 1799, at the end of George Washington's long life and illustrious career, the politician Henry Lee eulogized him as: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Esteemed historian Richard Brookhiser now adds to this list, First in leadership,” examining the...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
George Washington, the first president of the United States, is much more than a monument on Mount Rushmore. Who was Washington, the general, president, and husband? He was first and foremost a man of impeccable honor which, despite military adversity and political wrangling, never abandoned him....
Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise
How America's Industrial Success was Forged by the Timely Ideas of a Brilliant Scots Economist
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2004
Adam Smith was a Scottish professor of moral philosophy. He published his classic The Wealth of Nations in 1776, the year the American Revolution began. Smith became widely known for his ideas of free markets, laissez-faire commerce, and the "invisible hand." Yet English politicians, landed...
Tobacco Culture
The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2009
The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George...
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America
The Startling Truth Behind the Birth of Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A history of the holiday and an “elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America” (Financial Times).
Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country’s great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But...
The Society for Useful Knowledge
How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was time the colonists set...