Author: David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive - even stories as familiar as ...

A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.

The initial volume of what will become a multi-volume social history of the United States, this book treats the transmission of English culture to ...

Six months after Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied th...

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at Ne...

Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patrioti...

Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed throug...