Each book offers a thorough, authoratative overview of a key historical event or era, including all the relevant information in a short amount of pages.
Balancing social and political concerns of the period and perspectives of the average American revolutionary with a careful examination of the war itself, Ferling has crafted the ideal book for armchair military history buffs, a book about ...
The American Revolution, 1776-1783
Meticulously researched and accessible, Slave Nation provides a little-known view of the birth of our nation and its earliest steps toward self-governance.
The American Revolution: How Revolutionary was It?
This book has developed from a study that was first undertaken a number of years ago, when Howard Mumford Jones, then editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library, invited me to...
Taylor, Internal Enemy, 407–8; Wood, Empire of Liberty, 526–27; Stewart, Madison's Gift, 318–20. Taylor, Internal Enemy, 400–403; Peterson, Thomas Jefferson, 996–97; Stewart, Madison's Gift, 320–21. Aldridge, Man of Reason, 282.
26, 1782, quoted on 45 (“licks”); Chopra, Unnatural Rebellion, 198, 206; Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles, 63–64, 85–86; Moore, The Loyalists, 142–43; Ritcheson, “Britain's Peacemakers,” 96–100. 29. Albany resolutions, May 19, 1783 (“never to ...
Convening just weeks after the battles at Lexington and Concord, Congress quickly attended to its own schedule for prayer and moved for a resolution for a national fast day. The year before, the first ...
Blacks in the American Revolution
Uncover the remarkable story of the American Revolution!