Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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George Washington’s Revenge: The 1777 New Jersey Campaign and How General Washington Turned Defeat Into the Strategy That Won the Revolution
$34.95 Read moreIn late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By early November, George Washington’s inexperienced army withdrew further into New Jersey and, by the e
- Author: Lefkowitz, Arthur S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0811770419
- Language: English
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The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
$20.00 Read more“The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put t… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1101980052
- Language: English
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface
$21.00 Read moreThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker c- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0807060984
- Language: English
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95 Read moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- Language: English
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
$20.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2002
- ISBN10: 080907821X
- Language: English
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Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America
$35.00 Read more“Our personal rights, comprehending those of life, liberty, and estate is every subject’s birthright, whether born in Great Britain or in the colonies” wrote Rhode Island lawyer and politician Martin … [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Abby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 159416410X
- Language: English
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party a… [more below]
- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172463
- Language: English
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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
$17.00 Read moreThe award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0804172471
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: 1774-83
$20.00 Read moreUpdated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution, or the American- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Marston, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857399
- Language: English
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
$20.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NPR – Time Magazine – The Washington Post – Entertainment Weekly – The Boston Globe
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948838
- Language: English
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$22.00 Read moreIn a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood … [more below]
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0679736883
- Language: English
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The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
$29.95 Read moreWINNER of the Journal of American Revolution’s Book of the Year for 2023!
In 1785, just a few years after U.S. Independence, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carrie
- Author: Ekin, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888630
- Language: English
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Women of the American Revolution
$29.95 Read more“This is an extremely well-rounded collection of biographies that delves into the personal lives, professional accomplishments, and influences on the American Revolution of a wide variety of women fro… [more below]
- Author: Wilcoxson, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1399001000
- Language: English
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The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible–Alexander Hamilton, George W… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 080417248X
- Language: English
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The Fevered Fight: Medical History of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
$54.95 Read moreThe American Revolutionary War, fought two hundred fifty years ago between Britain’s North American colonies and the British colonial government, was a conflict of global significance. It had a profou… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Martin R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1399084828
- Language: English
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First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
$32.00 Read moreDispelling common myths about the first US president and revealing the real George Washington.
Winner of the George Washington Prize by George Washington’s Mount Vernon
George Washington–hero of the Fr
- Author: Valsania, Maurizio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 142144447X
- Language: English
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The Whites of Their Eyes: The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill
$34.95 Add to cartDon’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” remains one of the enduring, and most stirring, quotations of the Revolutionary War, and it was very likely uttered at the Battle of Bunker Hill by G
- Author: Shay, Michael E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0811773515
- Language: English
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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Excellence in American History Book Award
“Cogent, lucid, and concise…An indispensable guide to the
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize- Author: Chervinsky, Lindsay M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271033
- Language: English
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The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
$30.00 Read moreIn one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and cl
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498983
- Language: English
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
