Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - North American History)
by John Adams
American statesman John Adams (1735-1826) was a key player in the early days of the American Revolution, and the second President of the United States (1797-1801). He was involved in drafting the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and as a Congress representative in Europe negotiated peace with Great Britain. First published in 1841, this two-volume book brings together the letters Adams wrote to his wife Abigail between 1774 and 1801. Spanning twenty-five years crucial to the creation and develo...
The Career and Adventures of John H. Surratt, Since His Flight From America, After the Execution of His Mother, Mrs. Mary Surratt, Payne, Harold and Atzerott for the Assassination of President Lincoln ... His Final Arrest in Egypt by United State...
by Charles Wesley Alexander
A First Book in American History, with Special Reference to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans
by Deceased Edward Eggleston
Settling America - A Pioneer History of America - May Edition
by Paul R Wonning
Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America (Southern Biography)
In this sweeping biography, Elaine G. Breslaw examines the life of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), a highly educated Scottish physician who immigrated to Maryland in 1738. From an elite European family, Hamilton was immediately confronted with the relatively primitive social milieu of the New World. He faced unfamiliar and challenging social institutions: the labor system that relied on black slaves, extraordinarily fluid social statuses, distasteful business methods, unpleasant conversation...
By giving rise to new ideologies that in time transformed the political structure of much of the world, the American and French Revolutions stand as two of the most important political events in global history. The American establishment of a republican government, and the gradual expansion of democracy that ensued, altered traditional political and social thought, thus shaping the later French Revolution and creating the core ethic of later American political values. The Enlightenment ideals of...
The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold; 3
by Jared 1789-1866 Sparks
A History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent ..; v.9
by George 1800-1891 Bancroft
Writing the Rebellion (Oxford Studies in American Literary History, #3)
by Philip Gould
Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America. There has been a spate of related works recently, but Philip Gould's narrative offers a completely different view of the loyalist/patriot contentions than appears in any of these accounts. By focusing on the literary projections of the loyalist cause, Gould dissolves the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility drawn from their American situa...
Burial and Death in Colonial North America (Emerald Points)
by Robyn S. Lacy
While late 17th- and 18th-century burial grounds of colonial North America are frequently the subject of research, wide-scale studies of 17th-century burial landscapes are often the less documented aspect of these sites. This book aims to fill some of that gap by exploring the relationships and organization of early British colonial burial grounds within the context of their own settlements and the wider northeast coast. Early settlers immigrated to North America for many reasons, and there, awa...
Pioneers of the Old Southwest
by Constance Lindsay 1882-1939 Skinner
Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God
by Professor of Religious Studies Baird Tipson
On March 20, 1760, a fire broke out in the Cornhill district of Boston, destroying nearly 350 buildings in its wake. One of the ruined shops belonged to the eminent Boston bookseller Daniel Henchman, who had published some of Jonathan Edwards's most important works, including The Life of Brainerd in 1749. Less than one year after the Great Fire of 1760, Henchman died. Edwards's chief printer Samuel Kneeland and literary agent and editor, Thomas Foxcroft, had also passed away by the end of the de...
Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity, and in this masterful work, Gary Nash reveals how and why this voiceless bell continues to speak such volumes about our nation. A serious cultural history rooted i...
This book explores the complex relationship between anti-Catholicism, or anti-popery to use the contemporary term, and the American Revolution in New England. Anti-Catholicism was among the most common themes in colonial New England culture. Nonetheless, New Englanders entered into an alliance with French Catholics against Protestant Britons during the American Revolution. As New Englanders traditionally associated Catholicism with tyranny and oppression, they were able to extend these feelings...