American War of Independence

Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. Th...

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R. Dull contends, and this belief shapes his account of the Fren...

This remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents to emerge from the tumult of Americas Revolutionary War. The ordinary and yet except...

Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians,...

During the Revolutionary War, forts in New York were instrumental in initiating and maintaining Americas desire for independence and helped the nas...

Before colonial Americans could declare independence, they had to undergo a change of heart. Beyond a desire to rebel against British mercantile an...

Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against...

The Revolutionary War was nearing its end in early 1783. In his Hudson Highlands stronghold, General Washington kept a wary eye on the British f...

When the Revolutionary War began, Congress established a national army and appointed George Washington its commander in chief. Congress then took i...

--------------- A thrilling spy adventure set in New York during the American revolution. From the rising star of childrens historical fiction, Isz...

John Paul Jones is now considered a Revolutionary War hero and the father of the American Navy, his defiant words I have not yet begun to fight! th...

When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. In Quarters, John Gi...

New narratives on the lived experience of the Revolutionary War through five case studies exploring the spectrum of loyalist experiences in Revolut...

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

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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

One of the most enigmatic figures of the American Revolutionary War, Colonel David Fanning is best known for his 1781 capture of Thomas Burke, the ...

They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people...

When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of th...