The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
10 best books like The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Rhys Isaac): Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, The Americans, Vol. 3: The Democratic Experience, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
| Author | Bernard Bailyn |
| ISBN | 0394757785 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society
Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives...
| Author | Esther Forbes |
| ISBN | 0618001948 |
This vivid account of the life and times of Paul Revere was first published in 1942 to great acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. An elegant storyteller and expert historian, Esther Forbes paints a memorable portrait of American colonial history and of this most legendary of revolutionary heroes -- "not merely...
| Author | Daniel J. Boorstin |
| ISBN | 0394710118 |
There are plenty of simple errors in this book, of date and place, and plenty of vacuous speculation, but overall, this book gives the reader a majestic overview of Americans inventing and creating over a hundred years of history. The themes that tie the book together are thin, but the brief individual...
| Author | Oscar Handlin |
| ISBN | 0316343137 |
The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
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...
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
| Author | Alan Taylor |
| ISBN | 0679773002 |
An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor...
| Author | Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| ISBN | 0195145887 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against...
Uncle Sam’s sugar satrapy stays the same
Well-written, interesting and informative, I first read Karnow’s book 24 years ago. Recently I re-read it as I was thinking about why Filipinos were desperate or naive enough to vote for a thug like Duterte? Wasn’t it similar in a sad sort of way...
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
| Author | Walter A. McDougall |
| ISBN | 0801857481 |
This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security...
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation,...
| Author | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0679781218 |
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...
| Author | James MacGregor Burns |
| ISBN | 0156027577 |
The concluding volume of Burns' biography on FDR - this one covering the war years from just after the 1940 election (leading to an unprecedented third term for FDR) to FDR's death on 4/12/45. Burns does a good job covering Roosevelt's cultivation of his two main Allies: Churchill and Stalin. The multiple...
| Author | Leon F. Litwack |
| ISBN | 0394743989 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...
| Author | Alfred D. Chandler Jr. |
| ISBN | 0674940520 |
The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance...
| Author | Mark E. Neely Jr. |
| ISBN | 0195080327 |
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's...
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
| Author | Paul Horgan |
| ISBN | 0819562513 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1954)
Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History (1954)
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize for History, Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of...
| 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...
| 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...
When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, the United States had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison,...
The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
| Author | Charles Grier Sellers |
| ISBN | 0195089200 |
This is certainly an interesting book, if you can manage to make your way all the way through. His basic premise is that the United States possessed a pre-capitalist economy before the War of 1812 populated by tradition-bound yeoman who toiled on the land for subsistence living. After the conflict concluded...
| Author | Colin G. Calloway |
| ISBN | 0195300718 |
In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, half a continent changed hands at the scratch of a pen....
