Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence
$32.99 Read moreThomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence “an expression of the American mind.” Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared p… [more below]
- Author: Spalding, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774878
- Language: English
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long for… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 1594484015
- Language: English
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Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth
$26.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America’s founding
The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with br- Author: Hoock, Holger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0804137307
- Language: English
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Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences
$14.99 Add to cartTrue stories of unusual happenings during the civil war.
In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where “the sound
- Author: Garrison, Webb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2000
- ISBN10: 155853315X
- Language: English
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The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter
$22.00 Add to cart“[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter’s story to consider larger questions of individual morality and … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0375761047
- Language: English
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James Monroe: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0451477278
- Language: English
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Notes on the State of Virginia
$20.00 Add to cartJefferson’s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom.
For- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436677
- Language: English
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William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$26.00 Add to cartWilliam Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning b… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0679773002
- Language: English
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
$30.00 Add to cartBy a prize-winning historian: The dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America
When most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial or r- Author: O’Malley, Gregory E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 125036423X
- Language: English
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The Constitution of the United States (U.S. Heritage): With the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and Other Founding Documents with an I
$34.99 Read moreTHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S MOST IMPORTANT FOUNDING DOCUMENTS ALL IN ONE VOLUME!
The U.S. Heritage series The Constitution of the United States: with The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rig
- Series: U.S. Heritage
- Author: U. S. Heritage
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1630062537
- Language: English
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Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America’s Most Radical Revolutionary
$30.00 Add to cartA thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, Not Your Founding Father reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been.
Early in the morning of October 9, 1776–- Author: Sankovitch, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1982178701
- Language: English
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War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.
This engrossing history of the Revolutionar- Author: Lender, Mark Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1472872673
- Language: English
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Kings Mountain: America’s Most Forgotten Battle That Changed the Course of the American Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartLearn the little-known history of the turning-point battle of Kings Mountain, one of the most decisive American victories in the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Kings Mountain was the most remarkabl- Author: Tucker, Phillip Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 151076643X
- Language: English
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America: 250 Years of Freedom
$49.99 Read moreFrom noted American historian, Editor-in-Chief of The American Crisis, and author of FREEDOM, AMERICA’S FIRST VETERANS, and THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Jack D. Warren, Jr’s AMERICA: 250 YEARS
- Author: Warren, Jack D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1630063290
- Language: English
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Broad Stripes Bright Stars: A Graphic History Celebrating 250 Years of America’s Icons
$65.00 Add to cartBroad Stripes, Bright Stars is a look book of our most cherished American icons –the Flag, the Eagle, Uncle Sam, and Lady Liberty–through hundreds of patriotic objects created during the past two an… [more below]
- Author: Hinrichs, Kit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600204
- Language: English
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Tom Paine’s War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time
$31.00 Add to cartIn 1776, one man’s words–and the determination of American patriots–allowed our nation to survive its first crisis.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence marked the birth o- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1250331935
- Language: English
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Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
$33.00 Add to cartThe deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled American icon.
Perhaps no founding father is as m- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1639737685
- Language: English
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
$24.00 Add to cartThe series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757864
- Language: English
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The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840
$19.99 Add to cart“Compact and insightful. “–New York Times Book Review “Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like.”–American Heritage
A… [more below]
- Author: Larkin, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0060916060
- Language: English
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The Alien and Sedition Acts
$20.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang introduces the highly controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, which have been used to justify the curtailing of basic freedoms … [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217155224
- Language: English
