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  • Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of his Excellency General Washington

    by S. WEIR MITCHELL M.D. LL.D. ...
    Hugh Wynne is a Quaker, but he is also a patriot. He believes in the American cause and is willing to fight for it, even though it means going against the teachings of his religion. Hugh joins the Continental Army and serves as a lieutenant-colonel on General Washington's staff. He is a brave and skilled soldier, and he fights in many battles throughout the war.Hugh Wynne is also a complex and ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Characters

    What Made the Founders Different

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!"Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best." —The Philadelphia Inquirer**In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, What made these men great, and shows us, among many other things, just how much ... Read more

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  • Revolutionaries

    A New History of the Invention of America

    by Jack Rakove ...
    "[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize winner ( The New Yorker).In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary." But when events in Boston escalated, they found ... Read more

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  • Nature's God

    The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

    by Matthew Stewart ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s ... Read more

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  • Harvard Classics Vol. 1: Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (Illustrated Edition)

    by Benjamin Franklin, William Penn & John Woolman ...
    *Includes Benjamin Franklins Autobiography and a chronology of his life, John Woolmans Journal, and William Penns Fruits of Solitude. *Illustrated with images of Franklin, Woolman, and Penn. The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 1926), then president of Harvard University. Eliot stated that a liberal arts ... Read more

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  • Soldiers for Sale

    German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83)

    by Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy, Virginia Easley DeMarce, Marcel Trudel ...
    A fascinating study that uncovers an important aspect of the history of the American Revolution, this account reveals how the British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was, in fact, an Anglo-German army. Arguing that the British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America, the book details how the task of ... Read more

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  • A Wilderness So Immense

    The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America

    by Jon Kukla ...
    In A Wilderness so Immense*,* historian Jon Kukla recounts the fascinating tale of the personal maneuverings, political posturing, and international intrigue that culminated in the greatest land deal in history. Spanning nearly two decades, Kukla’s book brings to life a pageant of characters from Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Jay, to Napoleon and Carlos III of Spain and other colorful ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Black Patriots and Loyalists

    Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

    by Alan Gilbert ...
    A surprising look at the roles of African Americans in the Revolutionary War: "An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches."— HistorianWe think of the American Revolution as the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for ... Read more

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  • Avenging the People

    Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation

    by J.M. Opal ...
    Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the "sovereign people," however, Jackson spent much of his career limiting that sovereignty, imposing new and often ... Read more

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  • Bring Out Your Dead

    The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

    by J. H. Powell ...
    Series series Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
    In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on ... Read more

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  • The Portable John Adams

    by John Adams ...
    In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with this wife, Abigail, ... Read more

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  • Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology

    Observations on Certain Documents in the History of the United States for the Year 1796

    by Alexander Hamilton ...
    Written by Hamilton himself to confess to the affair he conducted with Maria Reynolds, Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology is Hamilton’s attempt to defend and rationalize his misdoings, and ultimately salvage what was left of his reputation.The pamphlet was originally published in 1796 after accusations of the adultery arose. This personal exposé reveals a man, whom the public initially ... Read more

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