Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
$15.95 Read moreRecent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic c
- Series: Discovering America
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757530
- Language: English
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Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
$18.00 Read moreMost Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling… [more below]
- Series: Dangerous Nation Trilogy
- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0375724915
- Language: English
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Revolution Song: The Story of America’s Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
$17.95 Read moreAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356213
- Language: English
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Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States
$12.95 Read moreWhen Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben, a colorful, charismatic, imposing, and gay military leader from Prussia, presented himself to the Continental Congress in 1778, he had one goal in mind: to whip the… [more below]
- Author: Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1429095555
- Language: English
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American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing Our Nation
$25.95 Read moreAn enlightened exploration of history to unite a deeply divided America
The political dialogue in America has collapsed. Raw and bitter emotions such as anger and resentment have crowded out any logic
- Author: Radwell, Seth David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348618
- Language: English
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North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution
$35.00 Read moreHow the United States was created–a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels
The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence- Author: Lennox, Jeffers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0300226128
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian
“Accessible and electric…. [Ellis] crisply covers the decis… [more below]- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0307946371
- Language: English
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
$21.00 Read moreHere in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066227
- Language: English
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
$22.00 Add to cartA rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0812981200
- Language: English
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Revolution in Virginia, with a New Foreword
$22.95 Read moreUnsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby’s masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions
- Author: Selby, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0879352337
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Revenge: The 1777 New Jersey Campaign and How General Washington Turned Defeat Into the Strategy That Won the Revolution
$34.95 Read moreIn late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By early November, George Washington’s inexperienced army withdrew further into New Jersey and, by the e
- Author: Lefkowitz, Arthur S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0811770419
- Language: English
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The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
$20.00 Read more“The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put t… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1101980052
- Language: English
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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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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95 Read moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- 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 American Revolution: 1774-83
$20.00 Read moreUpdated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution, or the American- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Marston, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857399
- Language: English
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NPR – Time Magazine – The Washington Post – Entertainment Weekly – The Boston Globe
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948838
- Language: English
