Aspects of America's Revolutionary War are reexamined by American and British historians including Carol Ruth Berkin, Alistair Cooke, Prince Charles, Piers Mackesy, and Stanley K. Schultz
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.
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 ...
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...
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 ...
"For those who like their history rich in vivid details, Derek Beck has served up a delicious brew in this book.
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.
Blacks in the American Revolution