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In this book, the US Political Parties and the Presidents - Book 1, American history buffs will learn the history of the early political parties, philosophies and campaigns in the United States. Book 1 covers the presidential elections from the period beginning with the first Presidential campaign to the campaign of 1854, on the eve of the Civil War. Learn about the history of US politics.
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The colonial church was critical in training the founding generation on biblical principles for governing justly. When England governed unjustly over a long period of time with no intention of changing course, the leaders of the Continental Congress confronted their civil authority. After many years trying to reconcile, they saw no other option but to follow the biblical template for starting a new nation. They drafted the Declaration of Independence,...
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Read the events of 1775 during the early stages of the conflict in the Timeline of the American Revolution - 1775. This journal of the first year of the United States War of Independence reveals the important events of the first year of the colonial rebellion.The history stories in the book include:February 07, 1775 - Ben Franklin Delivers An Imaginary SpeechApril 18, 1775 - Midnight Ride of Paul RevereApril 19, 1775 - Battle of Lexington and ConcordApril...
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The Battles of Saratoga are cited as the turning point in the Revolutionary War. Beginning when the armies prepared to face off in June 1777 through the surrender of the British Army in October, the battles of the Northern Campaign were significant to the outcome of the War and the fight for independence. As a result of the Saratoga battles, the patriots gained confidence, the French entered the war, and the British plan to win the war quickly was...
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A History of the United States ConstitutionThe story of the United States Constitution begins with the Albany Plan of Union in 1754 and stretches into modern times with the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments. A Short History of the United States Constitution relates its history as well as many of the documents leading up to it.
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With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women and men (called, at the time, people out of doors) in shaping events during and after the Revolution, their impact on the Founding generation of the new...
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The Winter Soldiers is the story of a small band of men held together by George Washington in the face of disaster and hopelessness, desperately needing at least one victory to salvage both cause and country.
In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow to the Revolutionary War efforts. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance, bringing what Thomas Paine called "the times that...
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Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America.
To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was issued, King Louis XVI and French foreign minister Vergennes were aiding the rebels. After the Declaration,...
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The last 14 months of the American Revolution, the final phase after Yorktown, were crucial for the declared "united States" to achieve their collective and sovereign independence. This groundbreaking, updated history of The Revolutionary War is based on recently deciphered and transcribed, first-person correspondence from the American military, civilian, political, and diplomatic leaders who were running the war. It brings to light the successful...
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A fascinating, lavishly illustrated account, aimed at a non-specialist audience, of the excavation of over 500 burials unexpectedly discovered during development work associated with the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
In 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the location of the burial ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia,...
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Reveals the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston
Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of unfreedom. In this context, African slavery existed alongside many other forms of oppression, including Native American slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship, and pauper apprenticeship....
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Guerilla, rebel, politician, spy-Col. Benjamin Tallmadge lived one of the most remarkable lives of the American Revolution When British troops defeated the Continental Army on Long Island, Gen. George Washington was forced to abandon New York in order to save the revolution. The British established their headquarters in New York City, beginning an occupation that would last the length of the war. Priceless intelligence flowed through the city's harbor,...
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Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard.
Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you've likely never heard. Debated, reenacted, and analyzed, the Civil War has been the subject of countless books, films, and scholarly research-many of them quite repetitious. This nuanced perspective on the war provides a glimpse beyond the bloody battles, casualties, and...
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The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth-behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others. Some fault the absence of universal health care or the persistence of social inequalities. Others blame unhealthy lifestyles. But these emphases on present-day behaviors and policies miss a much more fundamental...
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An Army of skeletons appeared before our eyes naked, starved, sick and discouraged. Gouverneur Morris recorded these words in his report to the Continental Congress after a visit to the Continental Army encampment at Valley Forge. Sent as part of a fact-finding mission, Morris and his fellow congressmen arrived to conditions far worse than they had initially expected. After a campaigning season that saw the defeat at Brandywine, the loss of Philadelphia,...
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The history of the 1788 Virginia Ratification Convention explores the Constitutional debates that decided the nation's fate and still resonate today.
In May 1788, elected delegates from every county in Virginia gathered in Richmond where they would either accept or reject the highly controversial United States Constitution. The rest of the country kept an anxious vigil, keenly aware that without Virginia-the young Republic's largest and most populous...
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A historical study of a little-known episode of the American Revolution in which Charleston residents were held in a British-occupied region of Florida.
In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by combined British and loyalist forces, British soldiers arrested sixty-three Americans and transported them to the borderland town of St. Augustine, East Florida-territory under British control since the French and Indian...
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Honorable Mention for the 2015 Book Award from the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
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November 1774, a pamphlet to the "People of America" was published in
Philadelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights and
liberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independence
from Britain. The author of this pamphlet was Charles Lee, a former...
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Estados Unidos es un país convulso que lucha una guerra interna que se expresa en EL RACISMO que lleva en sus venas desde la colonia hasta ayer mismo. Aquí repasamos: Los desmanes en las calles de los EE.UU.La Historia del racismo en los siglos XVIII, XIX y XXLa religión y la raza: ¿por qué los negros han adoptado con tanta fuerza la religión de sus captores?Las obras literarias emblemáticas que nos hablan del pulso de una sociedad: Huckleberry...
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In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost two decades earlier. Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty. Considering...