American War of Independence

After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelph...

Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize, Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New JerseyFinalist, George Washington PrizeA Choic...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

Relying principally on Ian Saberton's edition of The Cornwallis Papers: The Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Theatre of the American Revo...

In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguin...

Fully illustrated, this is the second volume in a detailed study of the German auxiliary troops who fought for Britain in the American Revolutionar...

New England theologian Jonathan Edwards came to prominence at the culmination of a dramatic paradigm shift in millennialism that had begun in the s...

In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in ...

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of La...

Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American ...

Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's future. For the n...

Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images o...

A fresh examination of the life and crimes of the highest-ranking federal official ever tried for treason and espionage American Traitor examines ...

Revolutionary War historians and biographers of Charles Lee have treated him as either an inveterate enemy of George Washington or a great defender...

The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of thi...

The fate of the American Revolution had yet to be decided when a remarkable 21-year-old Frenchman arrived in America. Louis-François-Bertrand, the ...

June 1778 was a tumultuous month in the annals of American military history. Somehow, General George Washington and the Continental Army were able ...