Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars.
In one portable volume, with accessible...
Barbarians and Brothers
Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In this work, Wayne E. Lee presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American...
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...
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...
A Politician Thinking
The Creative Mind of James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those...
by Yanek Mieczkowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
History has not been kind to Gerald Ford. His name evokes an image of either America's only unelected president, who abruptly pardoned his corrupt predecessor, or an accident-prone man who failed to provide skilled leadership to a country in domestic turmoil. In Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the...
by Jonathan Ozanne
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Liberty! The Birthday of America! Celebrate the Fourth of July with a trivia challenge featuring more than 80 multiple choice questions about Independence Day. Question topics include: Independence Day past and present; Declaring Independence; Thomas Jefferson; Signers of the Declaration of Independence;...
The Washingtons: A Family History
Volume 1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This is the initial volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This...
Women of the Constitution
Wives of the Signers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work The Wives of the Signers, which was devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This new publication will be the first work devoted exclusively to brief biographies of the forty-three...
Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson
Is the Constitution Still Applicable Today?
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Many people have wondered what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. Now you can find out directly from Thomas Jefferson. In a series of fictionalized interviews, Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson offers an explanation of Jeffersons goals and a description of how...
The Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton
Biography, The Federalist Papers, The Continentalist, A Full Vindication, Publius, Letters Of H.G, Military Papers, Private Correspondence, The Pacificus
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This exceptional collection shades light on the incredible life of Alexander Hamilton. It includes his complete political and military works (the Federalist, the Continentalist, Publius, Letters Of H.G, Military Papers, etc.) as well as his private correspondence. In order to create full picture of...
The Second Amendment Primer
A Citizen's Guidebook to the History, Sources, and Authorities for the Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
So much of the debate about the Second Amendment is in scholarly journals and academic papers written by scholars and judges, or directed towards other scholars, law professors, attorneys, and judges. Trying to wade through the extensive footnotes and references to legal cases and historical precedents...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This is a Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American RevolutionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution,...
Summary of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Summary of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger | Includes Analysis Preview: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger is an historical account of...