epub |eng | 2014-02-14 | Author:Willard Sterne Randall [Willard Sterne Randall]

Squatters by the thousands were pouring across the mountains and driving settlers from their cabins. Others did not wait for such legal niceties as deeds and clear titles. Crawford reported ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:George C. Herring

14 "A Novel Burden Far from Our Shores" Truman, the Cold War, and the Revolution in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945–1953 With a touch of modesty—and no small hyperbole—former secretary of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert Middlekauff

Perhaps only in a revolutionary war do soldiers go into battle with a conception of a “righteous cause” competing with an image of their own necks in a halter. These ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fleming, Thomas [Fleming, Thomas]

President Washington asked Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay to negotiate a treaty with Britain to avert a war. Jefferson and Madison denounced the document. Jay was burned ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fleming, Thomas [Fleming, Thomas]

President Washington asked Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay to negotiate a treaty with Britain to avert a war. Jefferson and Madison denounced the document. Jay was burned ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Bruce Chadwick [CHADWICK, BRUCE]

VICTORY The way out came during the first week of July. The kidnappers realized that they might go to prison for substantial periods of time if their trial was heard ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

THE FIRST CONFRONTATION By the end of October, some observers already feared that when the tea arrived, a mob would board the ships and either burn their cargo or throw ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jill Lepore

Franklin’s story doesn’t fit neatly on one side of that divide, nor Jane’s on the other. Their lives were messier than that. John Adams found Benjamin Franklin impossible to account ...

mobi |eng | 1989-09-06 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

X “A Successful Battle May Give Us America” IF THE FRENCH did not recognize the significance to themselves of what they were doing in aiding the rebels, neither did the ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

A final proof that Jefferson was not opposed to all clergy can found in his work on the Virginia constitution. The original 1776 state constitution contained a prohibition against clergy ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Henry Wiencek

12 The Double Aspect Mary Hemings Bell had the good fortune, and the misfortune, to be a Hemings. As a Hemings, she had autonomy, which allowed her to leave Monticello ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Gutzman, Kevin R. C. [Gutzman, Kevin R. C.]

Chapter 6 Inaugurating the Constitution, 1788–1800 Ratification of the U.S. Constitution marked a tempered success for James Madison. He had devoted months to the task of bringing the Philadelphia Convention ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Scott Ridley [Ridley, Scott]

AS KENDRICK’S BOAT DREW ALONGSIDE, the Columbia fired another salute, and the men gave three cheers. Here was the captain who had remained on the unknown side of the world ...