Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisivel… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0743254910
- Language: English
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The Bill of Rights: A User’s Guide
$19.99 Read moreWith a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.
An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens. In The Bill of Rights: A User’s Guide, award-winn- Author: Monk, Linda R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 031641560X
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States–the American Revolution.
Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast o- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allison, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0190225068
- Language: English
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
$24.00 Add to cartThe defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from … [more below]
- Author: Maier, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0684868555
- Language: English
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, “A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar… [more below]
- Author: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733760
- Language: English
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Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution
$38.99 Add to cartIn our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it–for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest in
- Author: Greene, Jack P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 602
- Publish Date: March 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0393092291
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence
$35.00 Read moreWilliam and Benjamin Frank joined the Second Rhode Island Regiment in the spring of 1777, following the tradition of military service established by their father, a veteran of the French and Indian Wa
- Author: Green, Shirley L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1594164061
- Language: English
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Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
$21.95 Add to cartFriday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site o… [more below]
- Author: Loane, Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123091
- Language: English
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Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution
$39.95 Read moreIn this eye-opening account, Eli Merritt reveals the deep political divisions that almost tore the Union apart during the American Revolution. So fractious were the founders’ political fights that the
- Author: Merritt, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222811
- Language: English
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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartA “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans–women,… [more below]
- Author: Holton, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1476750386
- Language: English
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Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
$28.00 Add to cartIn this major new history of the Continental Army’s Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and cold… [more below]
- Author: Herrera, Ricardo A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1469667312
- Language: English
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Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
$23.99 Add to cartIn this gripping chronicle of America’s struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled wi… [more below]
- Author: Ferling, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: April 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0195382927
- Language: English
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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extra… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1501166344
- Language: English
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The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
$15.95 Add to cartWhy civic virtue matters to America.
America is at a crossroad. Current public opinion surveys report that Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track, and they are broadly pessimistic abo
- Author: Edgeworth, Dee R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887317120
- Language: English
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War of Lies: When George Washington Was the Target and Propaganda Was the Crime
$19.99 Add to cartForgeries 18th Century Style Fake News
“I do not really wish for independence. I hope there are few who do,” George Washington, June 18, 1776.
Did General Washington write these words, which newspapers
- Author: Cook, Jane Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988092629
- Language: English
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
$16.99 Add to cartA resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times’ infamous “1619 Project,” labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513065
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
$21.95 Add to cartThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies’ transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical account of the American Revolution tells the story … [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597972681
- Language: English
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThe myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont–a “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an often-misunderstood aspec… [more below]
- Author: Wren, Christopher S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1416599568
- Language: English
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
$28.99 Add to cartThe first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume–a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize–offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Middlekauff, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 09 2007
- ISBN10: 019531588X
- Language: English
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
$27.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States
In the vaunted annals of America- Author: Peterson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209170
- Language: English
