Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Insurgent Cuba
Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of...
by Samuel M. Smucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
George Mason
The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon...
by John F. Chilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by SparkNotes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
American Revolution (SparkNotes History Note)
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A Revolution in Favor of Government
Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
What were the intentions of the Founders? Was the American constitution designed to protect individual rights? To limit the powers of government? To curb the excesses of democracy? Or to create a robust democratic nation-state? These questions echo through today's most heated legal and political debates....
by Pauline Maier
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them...
For Fear of an Elective King
George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In the spring of 1789, within weeks of the establishment of the new federal government based on the U.S. Constitution, the Senate and House of Representatives fell into dispute regarding how to address the president. Congress, the press, and individuals debated more than thirty titles, many of which...
Let This Voice Be Heard
Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
*Includes pictures of John Quincy Adams and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes quotes from his diary and letters.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise,...
by James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
A Pocket Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
How often have people claimed that a certain thing was "in the Constitution" and you've wanted to pull out a copy to show them what this incredible document really says?
This is the book you want to keep with you at all times: the full text of the Declaration of Independence and the...
The Three Documents that Made America
The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
History comes alive! Get mesmerized by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights! These works capture the fury, the determination and thoughtfulness of our founding fathers as they crafted these cornerstones to our country. The complete founding documents of the United...
The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union
Selected Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South by 1830.
To Webster, the Union was the indivisible expression...