The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony
Title | The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony PDF eBook |
Author | Mark R. Anderson |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2013-10-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611684986 |
An unparalleled look at AmericaĆs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Title | Journal of Nicholas Cresswell PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1429005874 |
Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.
Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Title | Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Davis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Church and state |
ISBN | 0195133552 |
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, theories, ideas and goals of the Continental Congress. Those who argue that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian Nation" have made much of the religiosity of the founders, particularly as it was manifested in ritual invocations of a clearly Christian God. Congress's religious activities, Davis shows, expressed an unreflective popular piety, and by no means a determination of the revolutionaries to entrench religion in the federal state.
Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774
Title | Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774 PDF eBook |
Author | Reuben Gold Thwaites |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Dunmore's Expedition, 1774 |
ISBN |
The Articles of Confederation
Title | The Articles of Confederation PDF eBook |
Author | Merrill Jensen |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780299002046 |
"Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a presidential election."--Social Studies "An admirable analysis. It presents, in succinct form, the results of a generation of study of this chapter of our history and summarizes fairly the conclusions of that study."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Times Book Review
The Quebec Act, 1774
Title | The Quebec Act, 1774 PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Ephraim Hart |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 94 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes
Title | Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolai Cikovsky (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The beautifully illustrated book, with 47 color plates, will restore Raphaelle Peale, eldest son of artist, naurtalist, and inventor Charles Willson Peale, to his rightful place in the annals of American art.