Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Self-Evident : Discovering the Ideas and Events That Made the Declaration of Independence Possible
Understand in One Afternoon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
America’s Declaration of Independence is one of the most important statements on human freedom ever published. We laud Thomas Jefferson for penning the document’s flowing prose, but most of its lofty themes did not spring anew from his mind. Instead, he relied on the powerful concepts evoked by...
Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin
A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon...
A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named...
The Bill of Rights Primer
A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to the Bill of Rights for everyday Americans from a constitutional law expert and a US politician.
Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about...
by SparkNotes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The Declaration of Independence (1776) (SparkNotes History Note)
Making the reading experience fun!
SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing on individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into digestible lessons, the...
by W. Cleon Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America created the first free people in modern times. They wrote a new kind of Constitution which is now the oldest in existence. They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race. They believed it was thoroughly possible...
Emancipating New York
The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David N. Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism during the final decades...
Empire and Nation
The American Revolution in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world.
How did...
Declaration of Independence
A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Declaration of Independence
Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book that every American should read.
by Sylvia R. Frey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind."...
True for the Cause of Liberty
The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Following their defeat at Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a Southern Strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to “roll up” the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Instead, they triggered a savage partisan war of raids,...
From Confederation to Nation
The Early American Republic, 1789-1848
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In the era of the Early Republic, Americans determined the meaning of their Revolution and laid the foundation for the United States’ later emergence as a world power. This bookprovides students with an explanation of the major events and developments of one of the most important periods in American...
by Alan Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
Slavery and the Founders
Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage. The book explores the tension between the professed idea of America as stated in the...