American War of Independence

The Era of the American Revolution features a collection of more than sixty essential primary documents that allow readers to critically interrogat...

'People can only be free in relation to one another.'Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philoso...

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak....

Born into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia and raised and educated in that vital center of eighteenth-century American Quakerism, Ann...

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from king...

Beautifully alive.Wall Street JournalWinner of the 2022 Distinguished Book Award from The Society of Colonial WarsA tour through the original thirt...

America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideologic...

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United...

Today, Germantown is a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital that ...

A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic. Tyson Reeder...

How James Monroe's relationships impacted the rise, fall, and rebirth of political parties in the early American republic.From the Revolutionary Wa...

The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champl...

Perhaps the single most important founding document of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence became both a work of art and ...

Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary,...

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-c...

Almost everyone is familiar with the name of at least one Revolutionary War battle. Some, like Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Yorktown are...