Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Israel on the Appomattox
A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong....
by Warren L. Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This account of the first president’s trip to unite a young America “follows Washington’s travels day-by-day with detailed information about each stop” (Daily Herald).
Newly elected president George Washington set out to visit the new nation aware that he was the singular unifying figure...
Benjamin Franklin
Le Père fondateur des États-Unis
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Benjamin Franklin en moins d’une heure !
Personnalité emblématique de l’histoire des États-Unis, Benjamin Franklin est le symbole même du self-made-man. Né dans une modeste famille, il quitte les bancs de l’école à l’âge de dix...
Ties That Bound
Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation’s...
by Robert F Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
A Brief Biographic Sketch of the Federalist Kentucky Lawyer known for his eccentricities. Daviess on one of the first to accuse Burr of treason. He suffered a heroic death at Tippecanoe.
by A H Guernsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This is a brief account of Washington's two winters in the neighborhood of Morristown New Jersey during the American Revolution. Nicely illustrated.
by Carl Becker
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
What Would the Founders Say?
A Patriot's Answers to America's Most Pressing Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Patriot's History of the United States examines ten current challenges.
America is at a crossroads. We face two options: continue our descent toward big government, higher taxes, less individual liberty, and more debt or pull our country back...
Virtue, Valor, and Vanity
The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Washington, Adams, Henry, Jefferson, Franklin, and Hamilton: their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of the nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a more perfect union. We think of them now as faces on money or statues...
Twilight at Monticello
The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. It was during these years–from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president...
Inventing George Washington
America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Glorious Struggle
Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project Edward...
by Jane Kamensky
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
"A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire
Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution,...
Republic of Taste
Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all...
The Secret History of the United States
Conspiracies, Cobwebs and Lies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Everyone likes a good mystery, be it based in fact or fiction. The history of the United States is full of mysterious facts that are not taught in school, and most people don’t know the untold stories surrounding many historical events. In The Secret History of the United States author Kross brings...