United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface
$21.00 Read moreThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker c- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0807060984
- Language: English
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
$20.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2002
- ISBN10: 080907821X
- Language: English
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Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America
$35.00 Read more“Our personal rights, comprehending those of life, liberty, and estate is every subject’s birthright, whether born in Great Britain or in the colonies” wrote Rhode Island lawyer and politician Martin … [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Abby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 159416410X
- Language: English
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party a… [more below]
- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172463
- Language: English
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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
$17.00 Read moreThe award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0804172471
- Language: English
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$21.00 Add to cartIn a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood … [more below]
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0679736883
- Language: English
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Women of the American Revolution
$29.95 Read more“This is an extremely well-rounded collection of biographies that delves into the personal lives, professional accomplishments, and influences on the American Revolution of a wide variety of women fro… [more below]
- Author: Wilcoxson, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1399001000
- Language: English
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The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible–Alexander Hamilton, George W… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 080417248X
- Language: English
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The Fevered Fight: Medical History of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
$54.95 Read moreThe American Revolutionary War, fought two hundred fifty years ago between Britain’s North American colonies and the British colonial government, was a conflict of global significance. It had a profou… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Martin R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1399084828
- Language: English
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The Whites of Their Eyes: The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill
$34.95 Add to cartDon’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” remains one of the enduring, and most stirring, quotations of the Revolutionary War, and it was very likely uttered at the Battle of Bunker Hill by G
- Author: Shay, Michael E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0811773515
- Language: English
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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Excellence in American History Book Award
“Cogent, lucid, and concise…An indispensable guide to the
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize- Author: Chervinsky, Lindsay M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271033
- Language: English
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The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
$30.00 Read moreIn one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and cl
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498983
- Language: English
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
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Constitution of the United States
$9.95 Add to cartThe landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on S… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Founding Fathers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1429095334
- Language: English
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$18.95 Read moreFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today’s most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its mean… [more below]
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781218
- Language: English
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The 56: Liberty Lessons from Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence
$26.00 Read moreRead why the historical account of the 56 Signers of The Declaration of Independence and the story behind the 4th of July are so critically important…before they and the 4th of July are banned from … [more below]
- Author: MacKinnon, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1637584245
- Language: English
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
$10.00 Read moreBetween the first proposals of a federal Constitution in 1787 and the document’s 1789 ratification, an intense debate raged among the nation’s founding fathers. The Federalist Papers — authored by Ja… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Henry, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486843459
- Language: English
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The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
$32.00 Read moreNow an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United S
- Author: Wehrman, Andrew M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1421444666
- Language: English
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The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
$18.00 Read moreNow in paperback! In this gripping narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the intricately crafted tale of three of our nation’s most fascinating founding fathers–Alexan… [more below]
- Author: Groom, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 142622320X
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
$32.00 Read moreIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary- Author: Thompson, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1455565156
- Language: English
