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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

8 best books like The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Colin G. Calloway): The Metaphysical Club, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Minutemen and Their World, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Nejma

The Metaphysical Club
AuthorLouis Menand
ISBN0007126905
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist...
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0679736883
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
The Minutemen and Their World
AuthorRobert A. Gross
ISBN0809001209
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...
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
AuthorChristine 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....
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
AuthorGary B. Nash
ISBN0670034207
The Founding Fathers may have lead the charge, but the energy to raise the revolt that culminated in the victory of the American Revolution emerged from all classes and races of American society. The Unknown American Revolution plunges us into the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage, and hope that...
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN0618267468
In this remarkable and elegantly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on America’s revolutionaries. In his hands, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Hamilton were not pitchfork-wielding radicals or relentless power...
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
AuthorPauline Maier
ISBN0679779086
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans...
Nejma
AuthorNayyirah Waheed
ISBN1494493322
Nayyirah Waheed is brilliant, as always. Before I recommend this book, I would like to point out that her work is intended for POC (people of color). She has been subjected to quite a bit of appropriation lately, and whitewashing her words to fit a broader context is unacceptable. She is okay with non-POCs...
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