Winner of the National Book AwardThe classic political biography that reimagined Revolutionary history—in a new edition to honor America’s 250th year.Thomas Hutchinson, governor of Massachusetts Bay during the restive...Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come together and defeat the British Loyalist army, turning the tide of the war. An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come tog...Loe edasi...
Timed for America’s 250th anniversary, The National Road is the dramatic story of how a fragile new republic forged unity through ambition and action, fueled by George Washington’s youthful dream to build the United States’ first highway we...Loe edasi...
This wide-ranging collection of important documents, speeches, legal rulings, and other writings shaped the United States into what it is today.The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings is a collection of the crucial documents, s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250364234)
By a prize-winning historian: The dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era AmericaWhen most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras. Yet, in fact,...Loe edasi...
Learn 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 remarkable, unexpected, and unorthodox patrio...Loe edasi...
On September 11, 1777, Brandywine Creek became the site of the largest battle of the American Revolution. Outmaneuvered by General Howe’s flanking attack, Washington’s army avoided disaster thanks to a determined last stand near Birmingham Hill....Loe edasi...
This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774-1801.While scholars have considered historic friendships, this monograph examines Adams’s friendship n...Loe edasi...
This illustrated study reveals the crucial roles played by German troops and commanders fighting on both sides during the American Revolution. This illustrated study reveals the crucial roles played by German troops and commander...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780525658672)
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggle—expanding on the landmark, six-part PBS series to be a...Loe edasi...
Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell, Andrew M. Schocket
Sari: The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009596510)
Volume III focuses on the consequences, continuities, and legacies of the American Revolution. Accessible and authoritative, it will appeal to specialists, non-specialists, students, and general readers....Loe edasi...
Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell, Andrew M. Schocket
Sari: The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009596466)
Volume I takes readers across North America and the world to reveal the people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that set the context of the American Revolution. Accessible and authoritative, it will appeal to specialists, non-specialists,...Loe edasi...
Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell, Andrew M. Schocket
Sari: The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009596527)
Volume II focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. Accessible and authoritative, it will appeal to specialists, non-specialists, students, and general readers....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197631850)
The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth Century America traces the creation and evolution of the Mother of Washington figure and the monument to her, begun in 1833, to examine the role of motherhood in commemoration of the American Revolution. It als...Loe edasi...
This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. Public curiosity about Hamilton, his life, and his work has swelled, particularly among those intrigued by p...Loe edasi...
Drawing 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 Revolutionary War conclusively shows that tho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197684917)
A storied friendship between two of Americas founders--one that endured for fifty years--and the roadtrip that forged it. Between May 21 and June 6, 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison went on a trip together through Up...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740–1815) impacted the faculty, students, and institutional life of Yale College, and how those changes shed insight into the nature of the American Revolution itself as a conserv...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197554265)
An exploration of the mind of one of Americas most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.Arguably the most intellectual, creative,...Loe edasi...
The strategic role of British East Florida in the Revolutionary War, its battles, loyalist forces, and impact.During the Revolutionary War, East Florida was a strategic staging ground for the British campaigns in the south. Early in the war, George W...Loe edasi...
The strong survived. Nearly 800 men followed the famous ‘fighting parson,’ Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, into the Continental Army in 1776. Few of them remained at the end of the war. Meticulously researched and accurately told, this is the story of the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217421)
Harriss work is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of the complex operations sandwiched between Germantown and the arrival of the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Closing his magnificent trilogy that b...Loe edasi...
George Washington, the USAs first president, was the one indispensible man in both the nations independence and the formulation of its government. That said, he is too often seen as a stick figure--a man with no formal education, reliant to a gr...Loe edasi...
George Washington, the USAs first president, was the one indispensible man in both the nations independence and the formulation of its government. That said, he is too often seen as a stick figure--a man with no formal education, reliant to a gr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: History Press, ISBN-13: 9781467159692)
Author Dave Westrick shares the forgotten stories of the defenders, invaders and all the people caught in the middle of the Battle of Fallen Timber...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive biography of Colonel William Prescott, principal commander at the highly consequential battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775. Colonel William Prescott’s leadership at Bunker Hill exemplified American resilience, shaping the Revol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197671764)
Matthew J. Tuininga tells the epic yet tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England from the perspective of those who lived it, both colonists and Native Americans. Religion, he argues, was the central driving force of both peaceful efforts t...Loe edasi...
Details the Continental Congress’s transformation from diplomatic assembly to revolutionary leadership, overcoming crises to unite a fledgling nation.Beginning as a convention of delegates groping for an honorable way to mend ties with Great Britain,...Loe edasi...
The story of the Continental Congress from 1778—just after it secured an alliance with France—to 1794, when the War of Independence ended. Letters and documents reveal how the new nation’s improvisational government struggled to hold the union and th...Loe edasi...
A Significant Personal Account by a Continental Soldier, in Print for the First Time In the twilight years of his life, James Selkirk (17571820), a modest tailor and Revolutionary War veteran residing in Bethlehem, New York, composed a me...Loe edasi...
What do we know about the collective lives and military service of the American soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Revolutionary War? The unfortunate answer to this question is not very much at all. While more has been discovered about...Loe edasi...
This revised and updated edition of The American Revolution offers an accessible and authoritative account of the war that forged a nation.From the first sparks of rebellion to the final treaty, this comprehensive visual history...Loe edasi...
Winner of the National Book AwardThe classic political biography that reimagined Revolutionary history—in a new edition to honor America’s 250th year.Thomas Hutchinson, governor of Massachusetts Bay during the restive...Loe edasi...
The Founding offers a fresh, and richly-detailed retelling of the birth of American democracy. Far more than a recounting of familiar names and dates, this book uncovers the lesser-known stories, surprising twists, and forgotten voices behi...Loe edasi...
The American War of Independence was one of the most significant wars of the Early Modern period and certainly one of the greatest military upsets, with George Washingtons rebel army humbling the might of the British Empire. When revolt broke out,...Loe edasi...
The American War of Independence was arguably the greatest test of the British Empires military might before the World Wars and the outcome had far-reaching consequences. When revolt broke out in the thirteen colonies, Britain enjoyed unrivalled na...Loe edasi...
Providing a kaleidoscope of resources and entries on the people, places, and events that coalesced into the American Revolution, this guide offers a concise introduction to one of the most famous revolutions ever fought....Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come together and defeat the British Loyalist army, turning the tide of the war. An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come tog...Loe edasi...
Before the flu pandemic of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020, there was the smallpox outbreak of 1775-1777. John Adams wrote to his wife on June 26, 1776, The smallpox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians, and Indians together. Th...Loe edasi...
Timed for America’s 250th anniversary, The National Road is the dramatic story of how a fragile new republic forged unity through ambition and action, fueled by George Washington’s youthful dream to build the United States’ first highway we...Loe edasi...
This wide-ranging collection of important documents, speeches, legal rulings, and other writings shaped the United States into what it is today.The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings is a collection of the crucial documents, s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250364234)
By a prize-winning historian: The dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era AmericaWhen most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras. Yet, in fact,...Loe edasi...
Learn 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 remarkable, unexpected, and unorthodox patrio...Loe edasi...
