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Killing England : the brutal struggle for American independence
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard re-create the war's landmark battles, including Bunker Hill, Long Island, Saratoga, and Yorktown, revealing the savagery of hand-to-hand combat and the often brutal conditions under which these brave American soldiers lived and fought. Also here are the reckless treachery of Benedict Arnold and the daring guerrilla tactics of the \"Swamp Fox\" Francis Marion.
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Contesting Slavery
Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians' understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics.Contesting Slaverybuilds on the best of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in revolutionary America and the early republic.
The original essays collected here analyze the Revolutionary era and the early republic on their own terms to produce fresh insights into the politics of slavery before 1840. The collection forces historians to rethink the multiple meanings of slavery and antislavery to a broad array of Americans, from free and enslaved African Americans to proslavery ideologues, from northern farmers to northern female reformers, from minor party functionaries to political luminaries such as Henry Clay.
The essays also delineate the multiple ways slavery sustained conflict and consensus in local, regional, and national politics. In the end,Contesting Slaveryboth establishes the abiding presence of slavery and sectionalism in American political life and challenges historians' long-standing assumptions about the place, meaning, and significance of slavery in American politics between the Revolutionary and antebellum eras.
Contributors: Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria * David F. Ericson, George Mason University * John Craig Hammond, Penn State University, New Kensington * Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University * Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology * James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center * Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia * Robert G. Parkinson, Shepherd University * Donald J. Ratcliffe, University of Oxford * Padraig Riley, Dalhousie University * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University * Brian Schoen, Ohio University * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden * George William Van Cleve, University of Virginia * Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University
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20 fun facts about the Declaration of Independence
Presents interesting facts about the Declaration of Independence.
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Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850
Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on Republicanism and Liberalism to a new stage. Previously, the relationship between Republican and Liberal ideas, concepts and world views has been discussed in the context of American revolutionary and late eighteenth-century history. While the German states did not experience successful revolutions like those in North America and France, Republican and Liberal ideas and 'language' deeply affected German political thinking and culture, especially in the southern states. The essays published in this book expand the time frame of the debate into the first half of the nineteenth century, applying an innovative and comparative German-American perspective. By systematically studying the similarities and differences in the understanding of Republicanism and Liberalism in the United States and German states, the collection stimulates efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Sentiments of a British-American Woman
At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt
Reed-a name few know today-was one of the most politically
important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise \"The
Sentiments of an American Woman\" articulated the aspirations of
female patriots, and the Ladies Association of Philadelphia, which
she founded, taught generations of women how to translate their
political responsibilities into action. DeBerdt Reed's social
connections and political sophistication helped transform her
husband, Joseph Reed, from a military leader into the president of
the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, a position analogous
to the modern office of governor.
DeBerdt Reed's life yields remarkable insight into the scope of
women's political influence in an age ruled by the strict social
norms structured by religion and motherhood. The story of her
courtship, marriage, and political career sheds light both on the
private and political lives of women during the Revolution and on
how society, religion, and gender interacted as a new nation
struggled to build its own identity.
Engaging, comprehensive, and built on primary source material
that allows DeBerdt Reed's own voice to shine, Owen Ireland's
expertly researched biography rightly places her in a prominent
position in the pantheon of our founders, both female and male.
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The slaveholding republic : an account of the United States government's relations to slavery
Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But this book refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The book shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal law). Nevertheless, it also reveals that US policy abroad and in the territories was consistently proslavery. The book makes clear why Lincoln's election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln's approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a “Republican revolution” that ended the anomaly of the United States as a “slaveholding republic”.
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The First Chief Justice
Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the
Year Award in the History Category The first Chief Justice
of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When
the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain,
a body of federalized American law had to be created from scratch.
In The First Chief Justice , New York State Appellate Judge
Mark C. Dillon uncovers, for the first time, how Jay's personal,
educational, and professional experiences-before, during, and after
the Revolutionary War-shaped both the establishment of the first
system of federal courts from 1789 to 1795 and Jay's approach to
deciding the earliest cases heard by the Supreme Court. Dillon
takes us on a fascinating journey of a task accomplished by
constant travel on horseback to the nation's far reaches, with Jay
adeptly handling the Washington administration, Congress, lawyers,
politicians, and judicial colleagues. The book includes the history
of each of the nine cases decided by Jay when he was Chief Justice,
many of which have proven with time to have enduring historical
significance. The First Chief Justice will appeal to
anyone interested in the establishment of the US federal court
system and early American history.
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