History - United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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The Greatest Sentence Ever WrittenAmerica's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans--and explains how it should shape our politics today. To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a...
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The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding"William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander." --J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards UtopiaHow Alexander Hamilton embraced American...
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The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American IndependencePrior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British forces occupied every major city, invading the most private of spaces: the home. By closely considering the dynamics of the...
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The Honest Book of Presidents: The Men Who Shaped AmericaAmerica's most trustworthy resource delivers a refreshing guide to the American presidency.Only forty-five men have held the title President of the United States. In this concise yet powerful volume, PragerU -- in collaboration with leading historians, political thinkers, and bestselling authors -- takes you...
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The Hunters of KentuckyThe Hunters of Kentucky covers a wide range of frontier existence, from daily life and survival to wars, exploits, and even flora and fauna. the pioneers and their lives are profiled in biographical sketches, giving a rich sampling of the personalities involved in the...
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The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States"Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so...
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The Ideological Origins of the American RevolutionThe 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 most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation,"...
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The Killing of Jane McCrea: An American Tragedy on the Revolutionary FrontierThe killing of Jane McCrea on July 26, 1777, on the outskirts of a village in the northern Hudson Valley, would unexpectedly rupture the British advance from Canada that was meant to crush the American Revolution in one knockout blow. On that day, twenty-five-year-old...
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The Life of Francis Marion: The "Swamp Fox"Francis Marion became known as the "Swamp Fox" for his gutsy guerilla warfare conducted against the British during the American Revolution. Marion's knowledge of the woods and swamps of South Carolina were used as a weapon against the hapless Colonel Tarleton, who had been...
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The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding TextINDEPENDENCE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America. Illustrations and close readings of 68 original texts offer new insights on the American Revolution, the Civil War, and other...
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The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776For America 250, a provocative argument that a "Long Revolution" formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776. "Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's delightful The Long Revolution shows how much the story of America remains unsettled--and ours to make anew." --Garrett M. Graff,...
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The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution"With insight and eloquence, Jesse Wegman has done heroic work in bringing a vital but obscure architect of America back into the popular conversation. As Wegman amply proves, James Wilson merits our reconsideration―and our gratitude." ―Jon MeachamNew York Times journalist Jesse Wegman tells the...
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The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of IndependenceThomas 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 poetry of our political soul. In The Making of the American Mind,...
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The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American HistoryThe surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries Finalist, George Washington Book Award Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on...
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The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the EmpireThe loss of America in 1781 has traditionally been blamed on incompetent British military commanders and political leaders whose arrogant confidence and out-dated tactics were no match for the innovative and determined Americans. But this is far from the truth.Weaving together the personal stories...
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The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American RevolutionThe 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 and drilled--and that April 19, 1775 was not...
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The Minutemen and Their World: (Revised and Expanded Edition)Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North...
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The Narrative of Primus: A Lineage Woven into American HistoryThe Narrative of Primus uncovers the remarkable, nearly forgotten story of a ten-year-old boy taken from his mother's bedside in West Africa and forced aboard a slave ship bound for America. That boy, Primus, survived the Middle Passage, endured decades of enslavement in colonial...
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The Narrative of Primus: A Lineage Woven into American HistoryThe Narrative of Primus uncovers the remarkable, nearly forgotten story of a ten-year-old boy taken from his mother's bedside in West Africa and forced aboard a slave ship bound for America. That boy, Primus, survived the Middle Passage, endured decades of enslavement in colonial...
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The National Road: George Washington and America's First Highway WestUpon America's 250th anniversary comes the story of a new republic forging unity through ambition and action, inspired by George Washington's youthful dream to build the nation's first highway west The National Road is the first narrative history of the federal project--begun decades before...
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