Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Alexander Hamilton, trusted military aide and secretary to General George Washington, wrote to persuade. He had the ability to clarify the complex issues of his time without oversimplifying them. From the basic core values established in his earlier writings to the more assertive vision of government...
by Terrence Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Did the American people suddenly become independent on July 4, 1776, or is there something more to our shared history?
History books tend to simplify the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, but not Grandpa! Terrence Hagen wants his grandchildrenand everyone elseto know exactly...
Rome Reborn on Western Shores
Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States. Where other writers have concentrated on political theory and...
God of Liberty
A Religious History of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Before the Revolutionary War, America was a nation divided by different faiths. But when the war for independence sparked in 1776, colonists united under the banner of religious freedom. Evangelical frontiersmen and Deist intellectuals set aside their differences to defend a belief they shared, the...
Fries's Rebellion
The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In 1798, the federal government levied its first direct tax on American citizens, one that seemed to favor land speculators over farmers. In eastern Pennsylvania, the tax assessors were largely Quakers and Moravians who had abstained from Revolutionary participation and were recruited by the administration...
by Aaron N. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 reveals the largely forgotten importance of state sovereignty to American constitutionalism. Contrary to modern popular perceptions and works by other academics, the Founding Fathers did not establish...
by Joseph Beaumont Wakeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
This is a unique bit of Methodist history. It was compiled from what was a "lost book" of history. It covers the time from 1768 to 1797, and is an interesting look into the past. It is a must have for anyone who is perusing the histories as penned by Abel Stevens or Nathan Bangs....
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Liberty! brings to life one of the most important and compelling stories in America's history: the struggle for independence and the birth of the nation. New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative captures the high drama of the revolutionary war years and the unyielding...
His Excellency
George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
National Bestseller
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as...
A Son of Thunder
Patrick Henry and the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An in-depth biography of the iconic American revolutionary that “helps us understand the significance of Henry’s enduring image” (The New York Times Book Review).
Patrick Henry was a charismatic orator whose devotion to the pursuit of liberty fueled the fire of the American Revolution...
Revolutionary Founders
Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those...
by Bruce Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
"A magnificent book. . . . Bruce Lancaster's text is terse, rapid, lucid, and dramatic . . . filled with the color and excitement of a grim and bloody war." The New York Times. The American Heritage History of the American Revolution is the complete chronicle of the Revolutionary War told...
The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American...
The Marketplace of Revolution
How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...