Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
$19.99 Add to cart“Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country.” — James Mattis, General, U.S.
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062997467
- Language: English
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Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution
$20.00 Add to cartIn August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Great Britain, General George Washington’s young army faced off against over 20,000 British a… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0802126367
- Language: English
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The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize
Winner of the New York Society Library’s New York City Book Award
Journal of- Author: Sweet, John Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871484
- Language: English
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The Times That Try Men’s Souls: The Adams, the Quincys, and the Battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling, intimate history of the Revolutionary period through a series of charismatic and ambitious families, revealing how the American Revolution was, in many ways, a civil war.
“Posterity! You- Author: Malcolm, Joyce Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364757
- Language: English
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First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America
$32.99 Read moreFor readers of Never Caught and You Never Forget Your First, a revealing true story of celebrity, race and the children George Washington raised.
While it’s widely known that George and Martha Washing… [more below]
- Author: Good, Cassandra A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449515
- Language: English
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093641
- Language: English
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God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man
$29.00 Read more“Vivid.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A dazzling addition to the history of the American Revolution.” ―Kirkus Review (starred)
“Finally… a full and fascinating portrait of a true hero of the Amer- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250281954
- Language: English
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Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben
$24.99 Read moreA graphic novel biography of Baron von Steuben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual who influenced the course of US history during the Revolutionary War despite being omitted from our te… [more below]
- Author: Trujillo, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1419743724
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
$35.00 Add to cartThis “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316441112
- Language: English
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
$29.95 Add to cartA rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.
Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with th- Author: Barbier, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0674271777
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
$21.99 Add to cartThis “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316441090
- Language: English
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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
$32.50 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how George Washington saved the Constitution-and the American experiment
“To Rescue The Constitution is a maste
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063039583
- Language: English
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
$32.50 Read moreFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.
To the framers of th- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0385549245
- Language: English
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The Early Life and Times of David Crockett in East Tennessee: A Lifelong Study
$16.95 Add to cartDavid Crockett was one of America’s first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did t
- Author: Swann, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302209
- Language: English
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Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders
$29.99 Add to cart‘Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.’
Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
The Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, ste… [more below]
- Author: Barone, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773510
- Language: English
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Black Writers of the Founding Era (Loa #366): A Library of America Anthology
$40.00 Read moreA radical new vision of the nation’s founding era and a major act of historical recovery
Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity o- Author: Basker, James G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 750
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537342
- Language: English
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Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
$34.50 Add to cartIn his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies ove… [more below]
- Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662574
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$9.99 Read moreThe Wealth of Nations
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independen
by Adam Smith- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0553585975
- Language: English
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The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
$29.95 Add to cartThe Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways–and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spur
- Series: The Revolutionary Age
- Author: Kierner, Cynthia A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949912
- Language: English
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum- Series: Revolution Trilogy #1
- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250231329
- Language: English
