France's Royal Swedish Regiment in the French and American Revolutions
In 1740, the French King Louis XV granted his Swedish-led forces the title of Royal Swedish Regiment, for which it received the same privileges as all royal regiments including the protection of the king, new flags, and ordinance. Louis XV acted to fulfill a request of King Fredrik I of Sweden and to demonstrate his satisfaction with the great ......
Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828
Explores the creation and circulation of political caricatures in early US history. Includes a catalog of caricature prints published between 1789 and 1828.
Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution
George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge form an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revolution. Such winter camps, Steven Elliott tells us in Surviving the Winters, were also a critical factor in the waging and winning of the War of Independence. Exploring the inner workings of the ......
Born into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia and raised and educated in that vital center of eighteenth-century American Quakerism, Anne Emlen Mifflin was a progressive force in early America. This detailed and engaging biography, which features Anne's collected writings and selected correspondence, revives her legacy. Anne grew up ......
Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age
The Folly of Revolution takes readers into a "lost" monarchical world that few Americans today would recognize. This biography examines the life and work of Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a talented, hardworking, and erudite Anglican minister from New Jersey who was also one of loyalism's fiercest advocates. Among the early American clergy, ......
Martyrdom and the Making of the American Revolution
One Life to Give explores martyrdom from its classical and Christian origins to the onset of the Revolutionary War. Fanestil shows how martyrdom animated many personal commitments to American independence, and thereby to the war. Understanding the role of martyrdom helps the reader grasp the origins of the American Revolution.
History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution
The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the American Revolution There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they ......
What really happened at Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864?
The Union called it a massacre.
The Confederacy called it necessity.
TheTennessee spring came early that year, “awakening regional plants as warmer air and mois soil nurtured new life. Across the landscape could be seen the faint hint of green as sweet gum, hickory, oak ......
