"This revealing new portrait of James and Dolley Madison introduces the reader to America's first power couple. Using recently uncovered troves of letters at the University of Virginia, among other sources, historian Bruce Chadwick has been able to reconstruct the details of the Madisons' personal and political lives. Based on this archive, the author argues that our fourth president--the architect of the Constitution--owed much of his success to...

"Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician he co-founded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk...

The New Haven Town Records, 1769 - 1819 is a fully annotated and indexed primary source transcription of the minute s of New Haven's Town Meetings over what is arguably the most significant half century of the city's long history. As Volume IV in the Ancient Record Series, this 470-page volume provides primary source accounts of the greater New Haven area, including New Haven, West Haven, East Haven, North Haven, Hamden, Bethany, Branford, and North...

Sentido Común de Thomas Paine es una obra revolucionaria que se erige como un faro intelectual en la historia de la independencia estadounidense. Publicado en 1776, este panfleto se convirtió en una fuerza catalizadora para la rebelión contra el dominio británico, capturando la esencia del descontento y catalizando el fervor independentista. Paine, con una prosa accesible y persuasiva, aboga por la independencia de las colonias americanas, argumentando...

A fantastic account of the famous 'Boston Tea Party' when, in 1773, colonists in Boston protested the East India Company's stranglehold on the tea import market by throwing three shiploads of tea into the sea, and the events that followed.

Discover the how 2,000 privately armed Yankee vessels captured 16 British warships and almost 3,000 merchantmen during the Revolution.

The soldiers and civilians who participated in the Patriot War, fought between 1837 and 1842, hoped to free Canada from supposed British tyranny, as the United States had done just over half a century before. Despite heavy losses throughout, the American and Canadian "Patriots" refused to give up their noble cause. The Patriots launched at least thirteen raids on Upper Canada from the American border states. The western front, which spanned the British...

While history has immortalized George Washington, it has largely forgotten those who helped to propel him to greatness-the thirty-two men who served as his aides-de-camp during the Revolutionary War. Washington relied heavily on these men-among them a young Alexander Hamilton-for help in formulating policy and strategy. George Washington's Indispensable Men details the fascinating and sometimes tragic lives of these aides, providing a new and refreshing...

From the never-ending controversy over the Boston Massacre to the world's first working (sort of) submarine, “It Happened in the Revolutionary War” looks at intriguing people and episodes that shaped the course of the war. Meet Banistre Tarlton, a ruthless British commander who showed no mercy, earning him a reputation as the meanest man in America. Relive the harrowing horseback journey of Betsy Dowdy, a sixteen-year-old who braved a 50-mile...

New Hampshire was one of the first colonies to declare its independence from British rule. The patriotism and courage demonstrated in that act were by no means unprecedented--just before they began the Revolution, state residents attacked British-occupied Fort William and Mary in December 1774. While no battles were fought within the borders of the Granite State, these loyal sons of liberty contributed more men than any other state. Author Bruce D....