Betsy Ross and the Making of America
10 best books like Betsy Ross and the Making of America (Marla R. Miller): Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--from the Revolution to the War of 1812, The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, They Called Him Stonewall, Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776, Catherwood, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815, Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson
| Author | A.J. Langguth |
| ISBN | 0743226186 |
The War of 1812 gets only minor attention it seems. Thinking back to high school, all I can really remember is that it had something to do with the British taking sailors off of American ships by force, some battles on the Great Lakes, and Andrew Jackson kicking some serious Brit bootie at New Orleans. Oh...
| Author | Heather Cox Richardson |
| ISBN | 0465024319 |
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet while visionary Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower...
If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--from the Revolution to the War of 1812
| Author | George C. Daughan |
| ISBN | 0465016073 |
The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0151015155 |
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
Here...
| Author | Burke Davis |
| ISBN | 0517662043 |
My family came over to North America, Canada and the USA, at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries. Consequently, I lack a nativist attitude. In order to get at that sensibility I've found books about the Civil War to be most useful, the Revolution being too remote, the War between...
| Author | William Hogeland |
| ISBN | 1416584099 |
I think most people, when they think of the pre-Revolutionary days, are aware of two groups--those that supported independence and those that did not. But Hogeland shows how much more complex the real story was. There were those that wanted war with England leading to independence. There were those...
| Author | Marly Youmans |
| ISBN | 0380729881 |
It is early May 1678 when Catherwood and her one-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, get lost in the woods of the New World. Catherwood has recently immigrated from England with her husband, and they have settled near Albany, New York. Now a moment's inattention on a spring day has turned a short visit to the...
| Author | Mark Puls |
| ISBN | 1403984271 |
Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won back the city) and the Battle of Trenton (where he was...
| Author | Stephen Budiansky |
| ISBN | 0307270696 |
In "Perilous Fight, " Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the legendary Royal Navy.
Budiansky vividly demonstrates that far from an indecisive...
| Author | David S. Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0060826568 |
Waking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America’s vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman’s America. Casting fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy...
| Author | Charles Rappleye |
| ISBN | 1416570918 |
In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution. Morris...
| Author | Richard Brookhiser |
| ISBN | 0743223799 |
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination...
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
| Author | Alan Taylor |
| ISBN | 1400077079 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman,...
| Author | Walter Stahr |
| ISBN | 0826418791 |
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay known as the “Founding Fathers”. In this work the author brings to life the history of John Jay, who is much overshadowed by the other leaders but he is relevant and played an important...
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
| Author | Michael O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0374215812 |
This would not be everyone's cup of tea but I found it fascinating. In the winter of 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of future President John Quincey Adams left ST Petersburg with her 7 year old son to travel by coach to Paris, nearly 2000 miles away across a Europe torn and dangerous from the aftermath...
Wild Rose: The True Story of a Civil War Spy
| Author | Ann Blackman |
| ISBN | 0812970454 |
For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb...
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
| Author | Louise W. Knight |
| ISBN | 0393071650 |
In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman—and wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography...
Martha Washington: An American Life
| Author | Patricia Brady |
| ISBN | 0143037137 |
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who...
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
| Author | Kathleen M. Blee |
| ISBN | 0520078764 |
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan, sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion...
Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
| Author | Stacy A. Cordery |
| ISBN | 0670023302 |
In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, a lively salute to its maverick founder.
Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run barefoot through the fields. Deafened by an accident,...
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
| Author | Carol Berkin |
| ISBN | 1400075327 |
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing...
Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
| Author | Robert Middlekauff |
| ISBN | 1101874236 |
A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.
George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden...
| Author | Catherine Clinton |
| ISBN | 0060760400 |
I bought this book at the Lincoln museum in Springfield Ill. during my "summer of Lincoln" in 2010. I became obsessed with Lincoln. The museum is fantastic. You walk though exhibits in chronological order of Lincoln's life so by the time I got to his assassination I was in tears. I couldn't believe it -...
Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
| Author | Ray Raphael |
| ISBN | 1595580735 |
With wit and flair, Founding Myths exposes the errors and inventions in thirteen of America’s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere’s famous ride to Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech. Exploring the dynamic intersection between history-making and story-making, award-winning...
Josephine : A Life of the Empress
| Author | Carolly Erickson |
| ISBN | 1861056370 |
I listened to the audiobook version of this. I spent the first few chapters confused as to why I was listening the a biography of some chick named Rose Tascher from Martinique. Clearly I was not familiar at all with the subject. I had to Google Rose de Beauharnaise to find out they were the same person. Derf....
