Rejecting the tyranny of George III and backing it with a war turned out to be the easy part, says Bradburn (history, State U. of New York-Binghamton), because once people became American citizens, th
Chopra (history, San Jose Stae U.) recounts the complicated story of loyalists in New York City under British occupation during the Revolutionary War. He sets the scene of the multicultural, highly so
A senior historian at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, Stanton assembles nine essays published from 1993 to 2010, and adds two that appear here for the first time. The only changes she h
Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime he served as a lightning rod for dispute. F
Explores how the third president of the United States became such a divisive figure in American history, examining his views and the way he was perceived by his contemporaries.
From the beginning of the American republic until the 1920s, says Pasley (history, U. of Missouri-Columbia), newspapers were part of the political party machinery. He examines how that came to be, and
In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideo
In Patriotism and Piety, Jonathan Den Hartog argues that the question of how religion would function in American society was decided in the decades after the Constitution and First Amendment establish
"This book examines young Revolutionary War soldiers' and officers' changing motivations and expectations in relation to their enlistments, experiences in the army, choices about quitting long-term mi
"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment. Jefferson’s
For biographers and fans of Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Mary Cutts's memoir of her famous aunt has been indispensable. Because Madison left behind no account of her life, the common assumption has been
The fifteen original essays in this collection examine the politics of slavery and antislavery in the traditionally overlooked period between the 1770s and the 1840s, challenging the standard narrativ
