United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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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
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The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings (Keepsake Edition)
$16.99 Read moreA collection of essential documents from American history, now with a creatively embroidered cover.
The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings is a collection of the crucial documents that- Series: Crafted Classics
- Author: Editors of Canterbury Classics
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1645176991
- Language: English
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Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
$34.95 Read moreThe fascinating story of a British army chaplain’s buggery trial in 1774 reveals surprising truths about early America.
On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a
- Author: McCurdy, John Gilbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 142144853X
- Language: English
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The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
$21.99 Add to cartA brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the … [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0471327166
- Language: English
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Journal of the American Revolution 2022: Annual Volume
$40.00 Read moreThe year’s best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding eras
The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2022, presents the journal’s best hi- Author: Hagist, Don N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1594163855
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
$19.99 Add to cartThe Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation-… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0743286936
- Language: English
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, would locate her and safeguard her child–nor that Rob
- Author: Bellerjeau, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1493076493
- Language: English
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea
$27.00 Add to cartWINNER 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 Berg… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0451416112
- Language: English
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
$23.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0190625368
- Language: English
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State of Revolution: My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey Through Revolutionary War New Jersey
$14.99 Add to cartPart Memoir. Part History. Part Travelogue.
Part Love Letter to the State of New Jersey.
On a late summer day in 2009, Al Frazza began a journey of exploration. His goal – to visit, research, and photo
- Author: Frazza, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 24 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985560411
- Language: English
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1787: The Grand Convention
$29.99 Add to cartIn this masterly account of the Philadelphia summer when our Constitution was born, Clinton Rossiter establishes his claim that the year 1787 is preeminent in American history. Bringing to life the se… [more below]
- Author: Rossiter, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393304043
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence
$19.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence–for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves…. [Her] lively book reclaims a
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075327
- Language: English
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East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785
$25.95 Add to cartIn 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. Today, the history of East Florida is seldom s
- Author: Kotlik, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588385027
- Language: English
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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartBarbara 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 Sa… [more below]- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 1989
- ISBN10: 0345336674
- Language: English
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Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
$36.99 Add to cartA new understanding of how the West came to be
For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these hist- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 019762278X
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts
$34.99 Add to cartOn October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection… [more below]
- Author: Dunkerly, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 20 2007
- ISBN10: 1540204553
- Language: English
