books about: 1775-1865

books about: 1775-1865

books:

1775-1865

Lighthouse (St. Simons Trilogy, v.1) (The St. Simons Trilogy)

Eugenia Price

Providence House Publishers, 1999

A Book For A Middle/High School Student
What a wonderful book ! Not only you learn the history and feelings of the times when slaves were around and how things were, but you can understand and feeling the feelings of the characters ! This is a novel for ages 13 and up !

Gateway to Empire (Eckert, Allan W. Winning of America Series.)

Allan W. Eckert

Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2004

Great series
This book isn't as strong as some of Eckert's others, but as a part of his series, (and for a book that was previously out of print) I'd strongly recommend it. I had read Frontiersmen, Tecumseh and Dark and Bloody River, and preferred them easily to this book, but ...

New Moon Rising (St. Simons Trilogy, Vol. 2) (The St. Simons Trilogy)

Eugenia Price

Providence House Publishers, 2000

Her Island
Another great book for Ms. Price. Read the book in two days. Her story telling has a way of pulling the reader into the story. After reading the St. Simon Trilogy my future visits to her island will have a new meaning for me. I have gone to St Simon's for the last five ...

From Sea to Shining Sea: 1787-1837 (God's Plan for America)

Peter Marshall, David Manuel

Revell, 1989

Truth bows to no man....yet all men will one day bow before the truth."
I could pontificate profusely in many directions regarding the stalwort undertaking that is: "From sea to shining sea". Yet, I am moved most ardently to simply say this: "Those who will not remember the mistakes of the past, are doomed to repeat them." - George ...

James Madison: Writings: Writings 1772-1836 (Library of America)

James Madison

Library of America, 1999

James Madison Speaks for Himself
The American Founders are receiving a great deal of merited attention in popular histories such as "John Adams" and "The Founding Brothers." These books have the merits of readability and accesibility -- of providing knowledge and historical context of the early days ...

The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition

W.J. Rorabaugh

Oxford University Press, USA, 1981

The Drunkenness of the American Tradition
If you enjoy reading history, pull up a chair and pour down the whisky because you are going to read "The Alcoholic Republic." It is on the drinking patterns in the United States and the reading is simply interesting as well fascinating. You thought drinking was ...

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement

David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly

University of Virginia Press, 2000

Maintains his high standard!
Fischer wrote _Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America,_ which is one of the best works published in several decades in comparative and local U.S. history, and in many ways this is a continuation of the "Virginia" section of that book. Which is a bit ...

The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840 (Everyday Life in America)

Jack Larkin

Harper Perennial, 1989

Excellent Summary of Everyday Life
I am currently engaged in the effort of writing a family history and wanted to understand better the rythms of everyday life in New England in the early Republic. I found Mr. Larkin's book insightful, extremely well researched, and a trove of rich anecdotes about life ...

The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift ...

Dover Publications, 2000

The basic founding documents of American democracy
One can take two opposing approaches to this kind of volume. One can celebrate the treasures that are in it, or one can lament all the treasures it lacks. I prefer the first approach. For any volume which contains , The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, ...

William Henry is a Fine Name (Civil War Series #1)

Cathy Gohlke

Moody Publishers, 2006

a fine book!
This historical fiction, which follows 13-year-old Robert Glover in 1859, would be good to read with teens for discussions about such topics as justice, slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railroad. Although not graphic, the book does contain some disturbing ...

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

Walter A. Mcdougall

Harper Perennial, 2005

The Textbook You Wish You'd Had in School
Did we need one more history of the US? Even McDougall isn't so sure about that. But he manages to find a path that hasn't been beaten down. Where the tendency of American historians has been to find One Big Peg on which to hang their histories, McDougall pitches a ...

Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865

Richard Hofstadter

Vintage, 1969

The sourcebook for the period
This book contains the most important and pivotal documents of the period, as well as just enough insightful background to the period to allow a better than average understanding of the document. For fans of the Constitution and the judiciary, the sections on the ...

The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Road to Disunion Vol. 1)

William W. Freehling

Oxford University Press, USA, 1991

An Excellent Examination of the Antebellum South
Dr. Freehling, in this first of two excellent works on the long course of action that led to disunion and the dissolution of slavery in the United States shows great analysis of controversies that demonstrated division within the south, within political parties, within ...

The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant 1854-1861

William W. Freehling

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Even better than the 1st volume
I was a big fan of Freehling's first volume, but I believe the second volume is even better than its predecessor. Perhaps this is because Freehling devotes so many pages to a shorter time period so you get a fuller picture of what was going on. Or perhaps it is ...

The Portable John Adams (Penguin Classics)

John Adams

Penguin Classics, 2004

The greatness of a founding father
Adams was in my American childhood a neglected founding father. Washington was the father of the nation, and Jefferson the great author of the 'Declaration of Independence'maker of the Louisiana Purchase, Madison the great author of the Federalist, Monroe the ...