Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by Franklin Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) is best known for being one of the Presidents of the United States, albeit one of the least known. And its just as well, since Pierce is widely considered by historians to be one of the worst in history. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface," a Northern politician who sympathized...
Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor
The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In 1774 American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September 1774, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” With their differing interests and cultural...
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s...
The First American Army
The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men behind America's First Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army.
With...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...
by A. J. Langguth
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution—the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom.
George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry—these...
The Winning of the West (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Part IV; The Indian Wars, 1784-1787; Franklin, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In this fourth volume of Roosevelt’s engrossing The Winning of the West series, he looks to the rugged frontier. His description of all the American west witnessed from 1784 to 1787—an inrush of settlers, the Indian Wars, the routing of the Mississippi, the Separatist Movement, Kentucky’s struggle to become a state, and more—is simply gripping.
The Road to Disunion
Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 1991
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers,...
The Everything Founding Fathers Book
All you need to know about the men who shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
George Washington. John Adams. Benjamin Franklin. These great leaders--and many others--made innumerable contributions that laid the groundwork for our nation. But who were they really?
In actuality, the founding fathers were a diverse group of men and not the homogenous collection history...
by W.C. Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Two subjects continue to fascinate people—the Old West and a good mystery. This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old West's most baffling mysteries, which lure the curious and beg for investigation even though their solutions have eluded experts for decades. Many relate to the death...
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and...
James Madison
A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison's role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia,...
The Everything U.S. Constitution Book
An easy-to-understand explanation of the foundation of American government
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Debates over constitutional rights impact you every day as an American citizen. But do you know what the U.S. Constitution actually says? This accessible guide contains the complete text of the Constitution, with short, descriptive margin notes throughout. Articles and amendments are then analyzed...
by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic...