Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books

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Manhood Enslaved

Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

by Kenneth E. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes...
Cover of Works Of Thomas Paine: Includes Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason And A Letter Addressed To The Abbe Raynal (Mobi Collected Works)
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:Common SenseThe American CrisisThe...
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by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century enlightenment Philosopher and author Thomas Paine. The first volume begins with the famous words "These are the times that try men's souls". There were sixteen pamphlets...
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by Sharon M. Harris, Various
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003

This fascinating collection presents a rare look at women writers' first-hand perspectives on early American history. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many women authors began to write historical analysis, thereby taking on an essential role in defining the new American Republicanism....
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The Men Behind the Legacy - Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Complete Biographies, Speeches, Articles & Historical Records

Including the Constitution of the United States, Articles of Confederation, First Drafts of The Declaration of Independence and Other Decisive Historical Documents

by L. Carroll Judson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017

This collection presents you with the biographies of fifty-eight individuals, some of them famous names, some forgotten men of the past, but all crucial in the accomplishment of a single object, the independence of the United State: Thomas Jefferson John Hancock Benjamin Franklin Roger Sherman Edward...
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)

Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters

by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1984

The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography," "Notes on the State of Virginia," public and private papers, including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence, addresses, and 287 letters. LIBRARY...
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by Paul M. Zall
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006

Although he called himself merely a "printer" in his will, Benjamin Franklin could have also called himself a diplomat, a doctor, an electrician, a frontier general, an inventor, a journalist, a legislator, a librarian, a magistrate, a postmaster, a promoter, a publisher -- and a humorist....
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George Washington's War

The Saga of the American Revolution

by Robert Leckie
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010

An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly
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The Washingtons: A Family History

Volume 3: Royal Descents of the Presidential Branch

by Justin Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

This Royal Descents supplement is an outgrowth of the author’s multi-volume family history of the “Presidential Branch” of the Washingtons. That work collects the descendants of the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather...
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by Douglas Southall Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review). Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman...
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Affairs of State

The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789–1900

by Robert P. Watson, Lynn University; author of Affairs of State, The Presidents’ Wives
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

In recent years, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and countless other politicians have made headlines for their sexual scandals. But such stories are not new. Indeed, there is a long history of misbehavior in politics, including in the nation’s highest...
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Patrick Henry

First Among Patriots

by Thomas S. Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011

Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement “Give me liberty or give me death!” rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator-sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia-are only one part of his vast, but largely...
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Crucible of Power

A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913

by Howard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009

Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913 presents a straightforward, balanced, and comprehensive history of American international relations from the American Revolution to 1913. Howard Jones demonstrates the complexities of the decision-making process that led to the rise...
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by James Mott Hallowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII About the Author James Mott Hallowell was the Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
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