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Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks……続きを見る

Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercul……続きを見る

Som statsmand, videnskabsmand, opfinder og Founding Father står Benjamin Franklin som en central figur i Amerika og i oplysningstiden. Selvbiografi en er Franklins absolutte mesterværk og betragtes ……続きを見る

Meet the overlooked women in history who loved, nurtured, and defended the famed American scientist and founding father. “ . . . highlights a side of Ben Franklin too often ignored by historians . .……続きを見る

The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for Americ……続きを見る

The figure of John Adams looms large in American foreign relations of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years. James H. Hutson captures this elusive personality of this remarkable figure, hig……続きを見る

An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independen……続きを見る

This comprehensive studyーan honorable mention in the 1971 Frederick Jackson Turner Award competitionー traces the emergence and development of the Republican and Federalist party organizations in V……続きを見る

This study of the Southern Federalists examines their contribution to the formation of the party system at the end of the eighteenth century and to the liberalization of politics in America. Despite……続きを見る

A microcosm of the history of American slavery in a collection of the most important primary and secondary readings on slavery at Georgetown University and among the Maryland Jesuits Georgetown Univ……続きを見る

A vibrant look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals**.** When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a ……続きを見る

Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their live……続きを見る

Here in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (178……続きを見る

The American Revolution swept away old certainties and forced revolutionaries to consider what it meant to be American. Andrew Trees examines four attempts to answer the question of national identit……続きを見る

Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalizati……続きを見る

This edition is comprised of the most important legal documents in early American history which are considered instrumental to its founding and philosophy: The United States Declaration of Independe……続きを見る

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart. In his later years, Thomas Jefferson referred to “the revolutio……続きを見る

FDRーthe wily political opportunist glowing with charismatic charm, a leader venerated and hated with equal vigorーsuch is one common notion of a president elected to an unprecedented four terms. Bu……続きを見る

The famous words of patriots, such as Nathan Hale's "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country," have echoed through the centuries as embodiments of the spirit of the American Revolut……続きを見る

Senator from Georgia, minister to France, cabinet officer, and unsuccessful presidential candidate, William Harris Crawford was one of the major figures of the early republic. Because most of his pa……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1825) was one of the most well-known Americans in history. As one of the prominent Founding Fathers, Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statut……続きを見る

Die Onafhanklikheidsverklaring is een van die belangrikste dokumente in die geskiedenis van die Verenigde State. Dit was 'n amptelike daad wat al 13 Amerikaanse kolonies geneem het om onafhanklikhei……続きを見る

The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringingーand its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexa……続きを見る

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Award for Excellence in U.S. Army History Writing The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of how the……続きを見る

Years before General Benedict Arnold betrayed the American cause, a young officer and attorney named John Brown brought 13 charges of misconduct against him and called for his arrest, Brown was shut……続きを見る

Accomplishing the Impossible draws contemporary leadership lessons from the events and people that were central to the beginning of the American Revolution. Retired general, scholar, and educator Wi……続きを見る

The church-state debate currently alive in our courts and legislatures is strikingly similar to that of the 1830s. A secular drift in American culture and the role of religion in a pluralistic socie……続きを見る

In the fall of 1829, young Robert Wilmot Scott rode away from Frankfort, Kentucky, on a trip that would take him through nine states. His journal entries about those travels present a vivid picture ……続きを見る

New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book Award Jour……続きを見る

James Wilson’s life began as an Atlantic World success story, with mounting intellectual, political, and legal triumphs, but ended as a Greek tragedy. Each achievement brought greater anxiety about ……続きを見る