Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of...
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would...
The Peasant Prince
Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of...
Treacherous Beauty
Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging...
Killing England
The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Revolutionary War as never told before.
The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation’s history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,...
Revolutionary Mothers
Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing...
The American Revolution
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred...
by Kate Cooch
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
A 2200 word history short about a possible military coup after the Revolutionary War. The Society of the Cincinnati was formed by disgruntled members of the Continental Army as the Revolutionary War drew to a close. They were unhappy with lack of pay and supplies promised to them by the Continental...
Liberty's Exiles
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....
Saratoga
A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
The months-long 1777 Saratoga campaign was one of the most decisive of the entire Revolutionary War. The crushing British defeat prompted France to recognize the American colonies as an independent nation, declare war on England, and commit money, ships, arms, and men to the rebellion. John Luzader’s...
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy
The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Beginning with the recognition that violence and struggle for power and sovereignty, not only a clash of ideas, were an integral part of the American Revolution, the editors weave emerging strands of interpretation of the Revolutionary era into a new synthesis that takes us far beyond the "rhetoric versus reality" approach that has remained in place for more than a generation.
Revolutionaries
A New History of the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker).
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of...
American Revolutionary War Leaders
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This massive biographical reference work covers both well-known and obscure figures from a variety of backgrounds including soldiers, politicians, plantation owners, farmers, and more. Information is included for officers of the Continental Army, Navy, and Marines; leaders of state militias, for whom...
Women of the Revolution
Bravery and Sacrifice on the Southern Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2007
A fascinating account of the women who contributed to the Revolutionary War—both patriots and loyalists—at specific battles in the Carolinas.
Each of the Southern Revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women. From the wooded slopes of Kings Mountain to the...