Revolutionary Services and Civil Life
Author | : Campbell Maria Campbell |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429021233 |
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Author | : Campbell Maria Campbell |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429021233 |
Author | : John L. Brooke |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080783887X |
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.
Author | : Joseph Lee Boyle |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Connecticut |
ISBN | : 0806349131 |
"While the six-month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777-1778 has been part of America's folklore for generations," author Joseph Boyle writes in his Introduction, "most of the men who served there have remained anonymous. The names of over 30,000 men of all ranks appear on the surviving monthly muster and payroll records. This compilation is the initial effort to recognize some of these heroes of the Revolutionary War."
Author | : General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2012-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620874989 |
How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling British colony of 300,000? In this remarkable account of the war’s first year, Pierre Burton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and official dispatches, the author gets inside the characters who fought the war—the common soldiers, the generals, the bureaucrats and the profiteers, the traitors, and the loyalists. This is a gripping account of a fascinatingly complex war that shaped the boundaries of America as we know them today.
Author | : Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019991687X |
In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general, George Washington. The other man traveled to New York to accept a captain's commission in a loyalist regiment before returning home to recruit others to join British forces. Neither man completed his mission. Both met their deaths at the end of a hangman's rope, one executed as a spy for the American cause and the other as a traitor to it. Neither Nathan Hale nor Moses Dunbar deliberately set out to be a revolutionary or a loyalist, yet both suffered the same fate. They died when there was every indication that Britain would win the American Revolution. Had that been the outcome, Dunbar, convicted of treason and since forgotten, might well be celebrated as a martyr. And Hale, caught spying on the British, would likely be remembered as a traitor, rather than a Revolutionary hero. In The Martyr and the Traitor, Virginia DeJohn Anderson offers an intertwined narrative of men from very similar backgrounds and reveals how their relationships within their families and communities became politicized as the imperial crisis with Britain erupted. She explores how these men forged their loyalties in perilous times and believed the causes for which they died to be honorable. Through their experiences, The Martyr and the Traitor illuminates the impact of the Revolution on ordinary lives and how the stories of patriots and loyalists were remembered and forgotten after independence.
Author | : David B. Mattern |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1643364324 |
The first modern biography of an American Revolutionary War hero In this definitive biography of one of America's most important but least known Revolutionary War generals, David B. Mattern tells the life story of Benjamin Lincoln, a prosperous farmer who left the comfort of his Massachusetts home to become a national hero in America's struggle for independence. Mattern's account of the citizen-soldier who served as George Washington's second-in-command at Yorktown and as secretary at war from 1781 to 1783 revisits the challenges, sacrifices, triumphs, and defeats that shaped Lincoln's evolution from affluent middle-aged family man to pillar of a dynamic republic. In addition to offering new insights into leadership during the Revolutionary period, Lincoln's life so mirrored his times that it provides an opportunity to tell the tale of the American Revolution in a fresh, compelling way.
Author | : Frederic Logan Paxson |
Publisher | : New York, Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1925, Paxson was the first American historian presenting the War of Independence from both American as well as British points of view.