Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
The American Soul
Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Looking at the lives of America's founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life.
The founders,...
by Woody Holton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The New York Times Book Review**, Editor’s Choice**
American Heritage, Best of 2009
In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award–winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation...
Young Patriots
The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
"Cerami spins a good historical tale." --Kirkus Reviews
Seven years after the revolution, America was in crisis. The government didn't work, but the citizens didn't care--or were in a state of rebellion. Then two unknown men, Hamilton and Madison (unknown especially compared to the...
Founding Rivals
Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Explores how the 1789 congressional election between two future presidents with differing views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights influenced the destiny of the United States.
The Muse of the Revolution
The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
Becoming Madison
The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In 1941 the historian Irving Brant wrote, Among all the men who shaped the present government of the United States of America,” Brant wrote, the one who did the most is known the least.” Brant concluded, When a man rises to greatness in youth, it is with his youth that we should first concern...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
*Includes pictures of Dolley and important people, places, and events in her life.*Discusses the legend that Dolley saved a priceless painting of George Washington from the White House as the British were invading during the War of 1812.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of...
The Founders and Finance
How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In 1776 the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to repay them. This is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—the immigrant founders Hamilton and Gallatin—solved the fiscal crisis and set the nation on a path to long-term economic prosperity.
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation
In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal...
We the People Elementary School Texbook
The Citizen and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches upper elementary students about government and active citizenship. Students explores the history and principles of American constitutional democracy through critical-thinking, cooperative-learning and a simulated congressional hearing culminating activity.
by Robert Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their...
TIME Alexander Hamilton
A Founding Father's Visionary Genius and His Tragic Fate
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Long considered the forgotten founding father and primarily known for the duel with Aaron Burr that ended his life, Alexander Hamilton has recently achieved a new level of fame because of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, inspired by the New York Times best-selling biography by acclaimed historian...
The Everything American Revolution Book
From the Boston Massacre to the Campaign at Yorktown-all you need to know about the birth of our nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Scrappy farmers. Aristocratic landowners. Eccentric geniuses. These were the rebels who took on the world's greatest power - and won.
From the rebellion against "taxation without representation" to the beginnings of American self-government, readers will learn how this unlikely group of colonists...
by Dave Richard Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Confronting the critics who say George Washington's victories were due to luck, not skill, Palmer proves why the father of our country also deserves the title of America's pre-eminent military strategist.