American War of Independence

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

Identifying discrete geographical areas in order to better understand a conflict that moves across hundreds of thou- sands of square miles of land ...

The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has al...

The American Revolutionary War pitched the newly formed Continental Army against the professional British Redcoats a highly trained organization m...

Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews...

With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail.In 1775 thirteen isolated...

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua...

Russell Shortos work has been praised as first-rate intellectual history (Wall Street Journal), literary alchemy (Chicago Tribune) and simply aston...

George C. Daughan''s magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War ...

This is a blistering account of the battle of Cowpens, a short, sharp conflict which marked a crucial turning point in the American Revolution. Wit...

Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-...

An award-winning writer on the American Revolution, Arthur Lefkowitz spent years searching through archival materials to paint splendid and compell...

Praise for Michael O. Logusz: Logusz has a flair for vivid detail, whether describing the terror Colonists felt during Indian raids on their settle...

Praise for Robert L. Tonsetics previous publications:takes an unflinching look at both the adventure and trauma of war while aiming to fill the gap...

No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City and its surroundings. Military leaders of the timeand g...

Captain Broke's victory in 1813 over Captain Lawrence of USS Chesapeake, which was to have far reaching influence on the future of North America, d...

Following their defeat at Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a Southern Strategy against the American insurgent...

Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their ki...

The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2017, presents the journal s best historical research and writing over the past calendar year...

A Major New Biography of a Man of Humble Origins Who Became One of the Great Military Leaders of the American Revolution On January 17, 1781, at ...

Looking to the general trend of Washington's military career, it is emphasised, throughout the volume, that the moral, religious, and patriotic mot...