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As we move closer to a presidential election we often start to pay closer attention to the act of electing a president - the primaries and caucuses and then the electoral college. But how did we com……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations inclu……続きを見る

Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of se……続きを見る

The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel p……続きを見る

The classic essay that helped ignite the American Revolution. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, U.S.) was an English pamphleteer……続きを見る

The adoption of the Bill of Rights was the last step in defining the essential elements of American constitutionalism. The process began with the writing of the Constitution, continued through its r……続きを見る

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution ……続きを見る

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil Warーa fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American historyーa Revolutio……続きを見る

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. Fr……続きを見る

Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave ma……続きを見る

Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents coverin……続きを見る

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming, is the dramatic story of the Boston Massacre and the subsequent trial of nine British soldiers for murder. Never before in the history……続きを見る

The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown Nathanael Greene is a ……続きを見る

Revolutionary America, 1763–1815: A Sourcebook is a collection of dynamic primary sources intended to accompany the second edition of Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History. While the……続きを見る

A JOURNAL, OF A YOUNG MAN OF MASSACHUSETTS, LATE A SURGEON ON BOARD AN AMERICAN PRIVATEER, WHO WAS CAPTURED AT SEA BY THE BRITISH, IN MAY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN, AND WAS CONFINED FIRST, AT M……続きを見る

The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding pl……続きを見る

Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kim……続きを見る

One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule,……続きを見る

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "Congress shall make no law……続きを見る

This is the life of a leading 18th century Scottish academic and churchman who was invited over to the American colonies as one of the first Presidents of what was eventually to become Princeton Uni……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long f……続きを見る

*Includes Revere's firsthand account of his midnight ride.*Includes Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride.*Includes pictures of Revere and important people, places, and events in his life.*In……続きを見る

*Weaves the lives of John and Samuel Adams into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes several quotes and writings from both John and Samuel. *Analyzes their relationship, political co……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPT……続きを見る

A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and help……続きを見る

On March 5, 1770, after being harassed for two years during their occupation of Boston, British soldiers finally lost control, firing into a mob of rioting Americans, killing several of them, includ……続きを見る

A fantastic account of the famous 'Boston Tea Party' when, in 1773, colonists in Boston protested the East India Company's stranglehold on the tea import market by throwing three shiploads of tea in……続きを見る

The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually o……続きを見る

11 works of Thomas Paine English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary (1737-1809) This ebook presents a collection of 11 works of Thomas Paine. A dynamic tabl……続きを見る

John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and……続きを見る