The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
10 best books like The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (Edmund S. Morgan): The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, Augustine: A New Biography, A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I, The Minutemen and Their World, The Portable Thomas Jefferson, Under Fire: An American Story - The Explosive Autobiography of Oliver North, George Washington: Our First Leader, Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts, World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made, Errand into the Wilderness
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac...
| Author | James J. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0060535377 |
O'Donnell, provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine's Confessions, is admirably qualified to chronicle the life of the man who wrote history's most famous autobiography. But in this book, suffused with the methods (though thankfully not the tortured vocabulary)...
A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
| Author | C.V. Wedgwood |
| ISBN | 1585790338 |
King Charles I was his own worst enemy. Self-righteous, arrogant, and unscrupulous, he had a penchant for making bad decisions. His troubles began the moment he ascended the throne in 1625 upon the death of his father James I. Charles simultaneously alienated both his subjects and his Parliament,...
| Author | Robert A. Gross |
| ISBN | 0809001209 |
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
The Portable Thomas Jefferson
| Author | Thomas Jefferson |
| ISBN | 0140150803 |
You're not going to find me recommending the portable Nietzsche, but this edition works for students and scholars. You not only get the notes on the State of Virginia, the Declaration of Independence complete with the parts edited out by others (it's from his Autobiography, if I remember correctly),...
| Author | Oliver North |
| ISBN | 0060183349 |
I found this book disorganized, tedious and long. Oliver North jumps around from the present to a few years ago to his childhood to two days ago to the early years of his marriage. It is just too hard to follow, and much of it is boring and not applicable to the Iran- Contra affair. I wanted to read this book...
| Author | Augusta Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0020421508 |
In the book George Washington By Augusta Stevenson George Washington goes from being a very bad kid to being very kind and leading adult. When he was young he broke sticks off of a tree and gave them to his classmates and they used them to fight.
George was always wanted throughout his life and he would...
| Author | Daniel K. Richter |
| ISBN | 0674055802 |
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of...
| Author | Irving Howe |
| ISBN | 0814736858 |
A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.
Winner of the National Book Award, 1976
World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish...
Errand into the Wilderness
| Author | Perry Miller |
| ISBN | 0674261550 |
The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men...
| Author | Richard L. Bushman |
| ISBN | 0679744142 |
This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman...
| Author | Christine Leigh Heyrman |
Revealing a surprising paradox at the heart of America's "Bible Belt," Christine Leigh Heyrman examines how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political attitudes....
| Author | Cotton Mather |
| ISBN | 0486444139 |
In this fascinating account of witches and devils in colonial America, the renowned and influential minister of Boston's Old North Church attempts to justify his role in the Salem witch trials. A true believer in the devil's battle to get converts in Salem and other Massachusetts towns during the late...
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
| Author | Pete Earley |
| ISBN | 0553282220 |
Another of those must reads after watching the eponymous movie. I have this need to always find out what really happened, i.e., what verity there might be in the dramatic film version compared to real life. Some background reading revealed that John A. Walker’s achievements were monumental. 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 | Pauline Maier |
| ISBN | 0393308251 |
In this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British. She follows the American Whigs as they moved by stages from the organized resistance...
| Author | Forrest McDonald |
| ISBN | 0700603115 |
This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers--including...
| Author | Elisabeth D. Dodds |
| ISBN | 0974236500 |
I wholeheartedly recommend this book! It is a well-written, inspiring and enjoyable read from beginning to end. Jonathan and Sarah Edwards' marriage was truly remarkable. As the book progressed, it became very evident to me that the influence they've had on the generations was greatly due to their...
| Author | Iain H. Murray |
| ISBN | 0851516602 |
Marrying careful historical research to popular and relevant presentation, Revival and Revivalism traces the spiritually epoch-making events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the eyes of those who lived at their centre. Fundamental to the book's thesis is a rejection of the frequent...
| Author | Paul F. Boller Jr. |
| ISBN | 0195167163 |
Were presidential campaigns always as bitter as they have been in recent years? Or is the current style of campaigning a new political development? In this revised and updated edition of Presidential Campaigns the answers to these questions are clear: the race for the presidency, although at times...
| Author | Mary Beth Norton |
| ISBN | 0375706909 |
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian...
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618340858 |
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, volume one of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, is the first of three books that interpret the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the early twentieth century in terms...
