Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn
An Untold Story of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.
Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey,...
by Thomas J. Schaeper
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Forgotten Allies
The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own....
America Goes to War
A Social History of the Continental Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned-soldier is deeply ingrained...
Dangerous to Know
Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania tantalized its audience...
Washington on Courage
George Washington's Formula for Courageous Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
George Washington was the senior officer of the colonial forces during the first stages of the French and Indian War, the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, the man who presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution,...
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In the 21st Century, America's first president seems as frozen in time as his marble busts. What was it that made George Washington first in the hearts of his contemporaries. Here in the diaries from the last years of his life, you get a glimpse at Washington, the man. He was a plantation owner,...
Washington on Leadership
Lessons and Wisdom from the Father of Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
George Washington is most famous for leading America to victory during the American Revolution and for being the first president of the United States. One does not have those successes without being a great leader.
In Washington on Leadership, learn firsthand from the father of our country...
by Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it before
Some of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence. Others simply take it for granted. In this contentious new look at the Declaration of Independence, however, celebrated attorney Alan Dershowitz takes "America's birth certificate"...
The First Prejudice
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice—both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration...
Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry
Reflections on Our First President's Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation In Newport, Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
George Washington’s 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, a foundational document in the history of religious freedom in the United States, embodies a vision of religious harmony that remains deeply pertinent in our increasingly diverse society. In Washington’s Rebuke...
by Peter Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. The account of Adams's twenty-five years of retirement...
American Connections
The Founding Fathers. Networked.
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising...
by Michael Lee Lanning
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The American Revolution 100 brings you to the charred battlefields and inside the maneuverings of the greatest leaders of the war that gave birth to America. In comprehensive fashion, it explains, analyzes, and ranks the war's most significant events, leaders, and battles according to their importance....