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In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the ……続きを見る

Davy Crockett has long been revered as an American folk hero. In this facsimile edition of his original 1834 autobiography, Crockett gives readers "a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in l……続きを見る

As the story goes, an itinerant preacher once visited the Bluegrass region and proclaimed heaven to be “a mere Kentucky of a place.” The Commonwealth’s first Baptists certainly thought so as they be……続きを見る

This illustrated study reveals the crucial roles played by German troops and commanders fighting on both sides during the American Revolution. During the American Revolutionary War, the British Crow……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Named one of the Best Books……続きを見る

**“American history as if from a barstool, not a lecture podium. Giddy, rollicking, and bold.” ーIlyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife "Accessible and impassioned ent……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Anti-Federalists' role in shaping the early political landscape of the United States and their enduring influence on American constitutionalism an……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s fo……続きを見る

In 1778, George Washington, Philip Schuyler, army officers, and New York officials began planning invasions against Iroquoia, the homeland of the Haudenosaunee and several other allied Indigenous na……続きを見る

Philadelphia’s early national history represented in Thomas Sully’s portraits Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those port……続きを見る

Julia Townsend accompanies her abusive British military husband to America during the American Revolution. She feels lost in that she finds herself married to a man she did not want, and is now livi……続きを見る

In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about the incident, which occurred during a v……続きを見る

A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life. For more th……続きを見る

The commanders who led the opposing armies of the American War of Independence came from remarkably different backgrounds. They included not only men from Britain and America, but from Germany, Fran……続きを見る

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, with the history of our founding a political battleground, this study of the ideas and battlefield sacrifices of 1776 by a Pulitzer Prize–winning s……続きを見る

A new narrative of the Ten Crucial Days winter campaign of 1776-1777 with a focus on how leadership, geography, weather, artillery, and contingency reversed the tide of the war. The “Ten Crucial Day……続きを見る

In "Alexander Hamilton" entführt Allan McLane Hamilton die Leser in die faszinierende Biografie des Gründervaters der Vereinigten Staaten, Alexander Hamilton. Durch einen klaren, prägnanten Schreibs……続きを見る

Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, thisis a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle. This engrossing history of the Revolutiona……続きを見る

In Retrospect of Western Travel, Harriet Martineau offers a vivid and thought-provoking account of her journey through the United States in the early 19th century. Across two volumes, Martineau prov……続きを見る

"The American Crisis" is a compelling collection of essays written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolution. Published between 1776 and 1783, these influential writings played a crucial role i……続きを見る

In Retrospect of Western Travel, Harriet Martineau offers a vivid and thought-provoking account of her journey through the United States in the early 19th century. Across two volumes, Martineau prov……続きを見る

Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy……続きを見る

Adam Smith was a Scottish professor of moral philosophy. He published his classic The Wealth of Nations in 1776, the year the American Revolution began. Smith became widely known for his ideas of fr……続きを見る

How the contours of the United States took shapeーand what they might have been There was nothing predestined about the now-familiar shape of the United States of America. Early visions of what the ……続きを見る

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham introduces America's essential founding documents in an elegant, readable, and timeless volume. In the winter of 1860–1861, facing the prospect of se……続きを見る

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham presents the brilliant and stirring essays in defense of the Constitutionーwritten by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madisonーthat made the ……続きを見る

An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe. Arguably the ……続きを見る

Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern ……続きを見る

The true story of two Irish naval heroes who won great battle victories for their adopted homelands and helped them achieve national independence. John Barry from Co. Wexford was a Philadelphia-base……続きを見る

H.A. Guerber’s The Story of the Great Republic offers a clear, engaging, and human-centered account of American history from the founding of the United States to the end of the 19th century. Written……続きを見る