10/22/06 - New Jersey in the American Revolution Edited by Barbara Mitnick | Amazon.com
Barbara J. Mitnick has edited a remarkably comprehensive anthology, bringing new life to the rich and turbulent late eighteenth-century period in New Jersey. The volume brings together contributions by twelve outstanding and recognized experts on New Jersey history. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
10/22/06 - Revolutionary Generation by Conrad Edick Wright | Amazon.com
What was life like for the young men who came of age in late eighteenth-century New England? How did the American Revolution and its aftermath shape their outlook and experiences? This book offers a collective biography of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771 through 1774. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/26/06 - John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In the first full-length biography for almost seventy years. Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/26/06 - The Other New York edited by Joseph Tiedemann & Eugene Fingerhut The Other New York provides a county-by-county survey of the regions outside of New York City, describing the social and cultural conditions on the eve of the Revolution and details the events leading up to the conflict, the battles and campaigns fought within the state, the hardships civilians experienced while creating new local governments and supplying the war effort, and postwar reconstruction efforts. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
6/24/06 - Rum is more than just a delicious drink. It helped to shape the modern world. Ian Williams's book, Rum, as biting, multifaceted, and warm-spirited as the drink itself - triumphantly restores rum's rightful place in history. It takes us from its origins in the plantations of Barbados through Puritan and Revolutionary New England, to Voodoo rites in modern Haiti and across the Florida straits where Fidel and the Bacardi family are still fighting over the rights to the ingredients for a Cuba Libre. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
5/2/06 - America's popular memory of the Revolutionary War casts New England minutemen facing off against redcoats at Concord Bridge and George Washington's frostbitten soldiers huddled together at Valley Forge, but The Southern Strategy, David K. Wilson's new study challenges the generally accepted notion that the war was fought primarily in the North. Wilson considers the waging of war in the southern colonies during the critical and often overlooked period from 1775 to the spring of 1780. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
4/6/06 - Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer:
- Now Available on Paperback
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
- Named one of The New York Times ten best books of 2004
- Named a nonfiction finalist for the 2004 National Book Awards Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
3/16/06 - In The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, Michael C. Scoggins provides an in-depth account of the events that unfolded in the Broad and Catawba River valleys of upper South Carolina during the critical summer of 1780. In July of 1780, the war in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure. Then the Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, took place and paved the way for British defeats in the Southern Theatre at Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation and Cowpens. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
1/10/06 - Now available in Paperback: In A Great Improvisation, author Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Benjamin Franklin's life: an unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
10/9/05 - The Pocket Book of Patriotism retells the thrilling story of America from an unabashedly traditional, proudly patriotic point of view. A concise handbook for the informed modern patriot, it is an inspired celebration of the great American experiment. Inspired by George Courtauld's bestselling Pocket Book of British Patriotism, Jonathan Foreman's companion book is refreshingly free of political correctness of any stripe—a source of patriotic inspiration that you will want to turn to again and again. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
10/1/05 - James Grant examines the complex and often contradictory Founding Father in the most well-rounded and multifaceted portrait of John Adams to date. Chronicling Adams's life - from his beginnings on a hardscrabble Massachusetts farm to the Continental Congress, Court of St. James, and the White House - Grant traces the words and deeds of one of America's most learned but politically star-crossed leaders. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
10/1/05 - British Supporters of the American Revolution focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
8/12/05 - John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding fathers. In the first full-length biography for almost seventy years. Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/31/05 - No matter where in history one turns, pets are always an important part of life. In Caroline Tiger's new book, General Howe's Dog, Tiger delves into the historical account of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War as proper breeding takes precedence in an unusual military footnote of civility under fire. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
7/3/05 - In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
6/22/05 - The Other New York edited by Joseph Tiedemann & Eugene Fingerhut The Other New York provides a county-by-county survey of the regions outside of New York City, describing the social and cultural conditions on the eve of the Revolution and details the events leading up to the conflict, the battles and campaigns fought within the state, the hardships civilians experienced while creating new local governments and supplying the war effort, and postwar reconstruction efforts. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
5/29/05 - Washington and Cornwallis, The Battle for America, 1775-1783, by Benton Rain Patterson, concerns the major battles and key players of the Revolutionary War. This story brings to light the defeats and narrow victories that won the United States independence from the English Crown as well as profiles its two fundamental characters, General George Washington and Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis. Book Details and Review from PatriotResource.com
