Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Collegiate Republic
Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Collegiate Republic offers a compellingly different view of the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution. Such histories have usually taken the form of the institutional tale, charting the growth of a single institution and the male minds within it. Focusing on...
The Great Catastrophe of My Life
Divorce in the Old Dominion
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the...
Warner Mifflin
Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying...
Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology
Observations on Certain Documents in the History of the United States for the Year 1796
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Written by Hamilton himself to confess to the affair he conducted with Maria Reynolds, Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology is Hamilton’s attempt to defend and rationalize his misdoings, and ultimately salvage what was left of his reputation.
The pamphlet was originally published in 1796...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self-Reliance
Advice, Wit, and Wisdom from the Father of Transcendentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the great minds of the mid-nineteenth century. His thoughts and views led the Transcendentalist movement, and his writings-especially Self-Reliance-taught people to trust thyself” and see how their self-worth was more important than anything else.
Emerson...
by John Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
America’s first president has captivated our interest for more than two centuries, but no biographer of George Washington knew him with the authenticity, intimacy, and depth of understanding as John Marshall exhibited in his book The Life of George Washington.
This biography was begun in...
by Constitutional Convention, Second Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Anthology of the most important documents of the United States of America especially formatted for digital readers with linked articles and amendments and also with The Constitutional Dictionary.* The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; ...
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: August 10, 2012
8 Oeuvres de Alexis de Tocqueville
Ce livre numérique présente une collection des oeuvres majeures de Alexis de Tocqueville éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres....
Forced Founders
Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"Notes on the State of Virginia" was the only full-length book by Thomas Jefferson published during his lifetime. Having been first published anonymously in a private printing in Paris in 1784, "Notes on the State of Virginia" was later made available to the general public in a 1787 printing in England....
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was a statesman, diplomat, lawyer and architect. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was an advocate of democracy, republicanism and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from Britain and...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
A digitized copy of the actual signed copy where the local peoples of the early America's banded together to overthrow their oppressors.
by Thomas Jefferson, Frank Shuffelton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Jefferson’s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in...