Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by John Marshall, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Roscoe Thayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The classic five-volume biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, plus the two-volume biography by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, plus the one-volume biography by Thayer. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 December 14, 1799) served...
John Adams
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling...
Ten Tea Parties
Patriotic Protests That History Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Everyone knows the story of the Boston Tea Party—in which colonists stormed three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. But do you know the history of the Philadelphia Tea Party (December 1773)? How about the York, Maine, Tea Party (September 1774) or the Wilmington,...
When the United States Spoke French
Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished...
Unlikely Allies
How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
**Look out for Joel Paul’s new book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.**
Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical...
by Robert A. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
Dunmore's New World
The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American...
Revolution in the Lymes
From the New Lights to the Sons of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Revolutionary War in the Lymes started as a rebellion of ideas. From its origins in the Cromwellian Saybrook Colony, Lyme (today's Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme and Salem) prospered under the free hand of self-governance and spurned King George III's efforts to rein in the wayward colonies. In 1765,...
The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea
Vol. 7 1782, 1783 and Overseas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea and Overseas chronicles more than 10,500 actions -- far more than other naval histories. Vol. 7 documents 1430 naval actions which occurred in 1782, 263 actions which occurred in 1783 and 116 actions which occurred overseas. It ends in June 1783 after...
by Edgar Stanton Maclay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historians tell us that the United States Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. But was it?
In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government employed a total 70 warships, carrying 1,800 guns and swivels. In those same two wars there were 1,300 privateers operating with almost 16,000...
by Michael Kranish
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state of Virginia,...
New American Revolution Handbook
Facts and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
WINNER FOR REFERENCE, 2010, ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISED BOOK
This remarkable new handbook makes studying the Revolutionary War simple and pleasurable. The authors use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, tables,...
Give Me a Fast Ship
The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
**WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE
“A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”—New York Times Bestselling Author Laurence Bergreen**
America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous...
Guns Of Independence The Siege Of Yorktown 1781
The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare;...