Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Calvin Coolidge on the Founders
Reflections on the American Revolution & The Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
In these pages Silent Cal Coolidge focuses his famed terse eloquence on the nation's founders, not merely on George Washington's indispensable figure but also on:
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Alexander Hamilton
Washington's fellow Virginia patriots
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History of the United States During Thomas Jefferson's Administrations (All 4 Volumes)
The Inauguration, American Ideals, Closure of the Mississippi, Monroe's Diplomacy, Legislation, The Louisiana Debate, Peace of Amiens, Relations With England and France, The Rise of a British Party
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The presidency of Thomas Jefferson began on March 4, 1801, when he was inaugurated as the third President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1809. In domestic affairs Jefferson sought to put the principles of republicanism into action. In foreign affairs, the major developments were the acquisition...
by James L Stokesbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself -- the campaigns...
Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution
Loyalist Tales from New York to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In 1778, New York State Patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario and Quebec. Many of the defiant young British Americans soon returned south as soldiers, spies and scouts to fight for their multigenerational farms along the Mohawk River, Lake Champlain...
by Benson John Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Lives of Signers of the Declaration of Independence is a classic history of the Founding Fathers.
by Frank Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American...
by Carl J. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...
The Founders on Religion
A Book of Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship...
by Danielle Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
**Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books**
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already...
by Daniel L. Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture?...
Original Meanings
Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces...
Brothers at Arms
American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History
Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award**
The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution...
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences, by His Great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences, by His Great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I.
Jefferson's Birthplace.—Sketch...
Original Intent
The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
In their own words, the Supreme Court has become “a national theology board,” “a super board of education,” and amateur psychologists on a “psycho-journey.” The result has been a virtual rewriting of the liberties enumerated in the Constitution. A direct victim of this judicial micromanagement...