United States - History - Revolution
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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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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea
$24.00 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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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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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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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as “the Founding Fathers”–who… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190273518
- Language: English
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The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartThe concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minuteman. The fact that he may have had military training … [more below]
- Series: History of War
- Author: Galvin, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597970700
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America’s Struggle for Independence fro
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of the American Revolution
In an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is worth reflecting on the circumstances of America’s foundation.
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- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647482526
- Language: English
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Gideon’s Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartIt’s 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and Gideon’s Revolution is about to begin. General George
- Author: Carso, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501771515
- Language: English
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The Black Heroes of the American Revolution
$9.99 Add to cartCrispus Attucks is known as the escaped slave whose freedom ended when he died in the Boston Massacre, but there are many other lesser-known black men and women who made enormous contributions to U.S…. [more below]
- Series: Odyssey Books
- Author: Davis, Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 1992
- ISBN10: 0152085610
- Language: English
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
$11.99 Add to cartA wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather’s farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, cris… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Martin, Joseph Plumb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451461
- Language: English
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
$27.00 Add to cartThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as “the mo
- Author: Bailyn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975650
- 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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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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Lafayette
$41.99 Add to cartAcclaim for Lafayette
“I found Mr. Unger’s book exceptionally well done. It’s an admirable account of the marquis’s two revolutions-one might even say his two lives–the French and the American. It al- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0471394327
- 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 Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
$18.99 Add to cartThe first work of fiction by a President of the United States–a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence.
In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to l- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0743255445
- Language: English
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Cloaked in Courage: Uncovering Deborah Sampson, Patriot Soldier
$18.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of Deborah Sampson, a woman who fought in the American Revolution disguised as a man–and who ends up finding her true identity and purpose in life.
Deborah Sampson didn’t like be- Author: Anderson, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1635926106
- Language: English
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Spies of the American Revolution: An Interactive Espionage Adventure
$9.99 Read moreEveryone has a secret. But in the war between the colonies and the king, keeping a secret is a dangerous thing. The first American spies belonged to secret societies and rebel organizations. The Briti… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Spies
- Author: Raum, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 149145931X
- Language: English
