American War of Independence

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...

The 17th and 18th centuries witnessed a period of almost constant conflict in Europe and North America. In New England, the threat of invasion from...

Having declared their independence, Britain's former colonies in North America would need to fight for their liberty. The response from the other s...

In Hamilton: The Energetic Founder, R. B. Bernstein provides a thorough history that reveals Hamilton's status as one of the key founding fathers o...

Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: I only regret that I have one life left to give for my country. But wh...