American Revolution
How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution
From a secret meeting in Philadelphia to the Treaty of Versailles, Shachtman explores the story of French involvement in the…
The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband
Facing the probability of marriage to an oily and grasping cousin, Cecilia Harcourt escapes by sailing to America to search…
Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
Young Colonel Alexander Hamilton works as secretary to General George Washington in Albany, New York, in 1777. Hamilton begs for…
Ashes: Seeds of America
This story, third in the Seeds of America series, picks up in June 1781 with escaped slaves Isabel and Curzon…
The Long Way Home
Murphy Steele is not old enough to do a man’s work when he and Thomas Peters run away from their…
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters’ Eyes
This well-researched and elegantly written art-historical study, which examines the role painting played in promoting the ideals of the American…
George Washington’s Secret Spy War: The Making of America’s First Spymaster
Nagy, the late historian, approached this book with a focus on facts, and with them he exploded some of the…
The Cavalier Spy
The second in O’Connell’s adventure series (after The Patriot Spy, 2012) begins late in 1776, with Lt. Gen. George Washington…
Agony and Eloquence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution
Of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, no two were closer friends than the eventual second and third…
A Flight of Arrows
In this second Pathfinders Series story, Two Hawks searches for his twin brother, stolen as an infant by British soldier…
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