American War of Independence

As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immen...

In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collecti...

Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolutio...

Learn the little-known history of the forgotten American Revolution Battle of Pell''s Point and the heroism of John Glover. General William Howe an...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...

The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the Ameri...

The story of the Revolutionary War in the Northern colonies is well known but the war that raged across the South in 1780-1781--considered by so...

A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war...

In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by combined British and loyalist forces, British soldiers arrested sixt...

A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary W...

From December 1777 through June 1778, the American Revolution achieved a remarkable turnaround. I these months the Continental Army recovered fr...

Although American independence was no miracle, the timing of the countrys independence and its huge scope, both political and territorial, do seem ...

Her story is adapted to move the compassion of those she visits. She has bad nerves, and seems in great disorder of mind, which she pretends to be ...

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' ...

This work takes us beneath the veneer of the famous Green Mountain Boys to reveal the true story of how a hardened, quasi-commando army happened to...

No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River, and the surrounding counties. Politi...

Between the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773-a period historians refer to as the lull-a group of prominent Rhode Islanders ...

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...

1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga covers the history of the thirty-three days of the Saratoga campaign. Utilizing historical archaeology and the word...

During the Revolutionary War, Rufus Putnam served as the Continental Army's chief military engineer. As designer and supervisor of the construct...

The American Revolution is seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from the conflic...

This elegant book collects the essential historical documents that laid the foundation for the United States and charted the course of the nations ...