Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 7, January 1786-February 1787
- Adams Family
- Edited by Margaret A. Hogan
- Edited by C. James Taylor
- Edited by Celeste Walker
- Edited by Anne Decker Cecere
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Hobson Woodward
- Edited by Mary T. Claffey
- In their myriad letters to one another the Adamses interspersed observations about their own family life--births and deaths, illnesses and marriages, new homes and new jobs, education and finances--with commentary on the most important social and political events of their day, from the scandals in the British royal family to the deteriorating political situation in Massachusetts that eventually culminated in Shays' Rebellion.
- Hardcover 2005
- Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 8, March 1787-December 1789
- Adams Family
- Edited by Margaret A. Hogan
- Edited by C. James Taylor
- Edited by Jessie May Rodrique
- Edited by Hobson Woodward
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Mary T. Claffey
- By early 1787, as this latest volume of the award-winning series Adams Family Correspondence opens, John and Abigail Adams, anticipating a quiet retirement from government in Massachusetts, were quickly pulled back into the public sphere by John's election as the first vice president under the new Constitution. With their characteristic candor, the Adamses thoughtfully observe the world around them, from the manners of English court life to the politics of the new federal government in New York during this crucial historical period.
- Hardcover 2007
- Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 1 and 2, December 1761 - March 1778
- Adams Family
- Edited by L. H. Butterfield
- Wendell D. Garrett, Associate Editor
- Marjorie Sprague, Assistant Editor
- The Adams Family Correspondence, Mr. Butterfield writes, "is an unbroken record of the changing modes of domestic life, religious views and habits, travel, dress, servants, food, schooling, reading, health and medical care, diversions, and every other conceivable aspect of manners and taste among the members of a substantial New England family who lived on both sides of the Atlantic and wrote industriously to each other over a period of more than a century." These volumes are the first in the estimated twenty or more in Series 2 of The Adams Papers.
- Hardcover
- Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 3 and 4, April 1778 - September 1782
- Adams Family
- Edited by L. H. Butterfield
- Edited by Marc Friedlaender
- Hardcover
- Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6, October 1782 - December 1785
- Adams Family
- Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson
- Edited by Joanna Revelas
- Edited by Celeste Walker
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Humphrey Costello
- With the summer of 1784, most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. Their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America.
- Hardcover 1992
- The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820
- Robert A. Ferguson
- This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture.
- Paperback 1997
- Awash in a Sea of Faith
- Jon Butler
- Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience. Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in Europe where state churches battled dissenters, magic, and astonishingly low church participation. He charts the transfer of these difficulties to America, including the failure of Puritan religious models, and describes the surprising advance of religious commitment there between 1700 and 1865. Through the assertion of authority and coercion, a remarkable sacralization of the prerevolutionary countryside, advancing religious pluralism, the folklorization of magic, and an eclectic, syncretistic emphasis on supernatural interventionism, including miracles, America emerged after 1800 as an extraordinary spiritual hothouse that far eclipsed the Puritan achievement -even as secularism triumphed in Europe.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- Creating a Nation of Joiners
- Johann N. Neem
- Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Forgotten Fifth
- Gary B. Nash
- As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of early America, and reveals the perilous choices of the founding fathers that shaped the nation's future. The Forgotten Fifth is a powerful story of the nation's multiple, and painful, paths to freedom.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Founders and the Classics
- Carl J. Richard
- The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book--the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders' conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
- Inheriting the Revolution
- Joyce Appleby
- Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society. The result is a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- The Life of Washington
- Mason L. Weems
- The effect of this "single, immortal, and dubious anecdote," and others like it, has made this book one of the most influential in the history of American folklore. The first republication of the book since 1927, it is unique in its detailed commentary on Weems and other biographers of Washington.
- Hardcover 1962 / Paperback
- The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- Bernard Bailyn
- Hardcover / Paperback
- The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- Bernard Bailyn
- Hardcover / Paperback
- Papers of John Adams, Volume 11, January - September 1781
- John Adams
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson
- Edited by Anne Decker Cecere
- Edited by Celeste Walker
- Edited by Jennifer Shea
- Edited by C. James Taylor
- In mid-March 1781 John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed his tactics, and in a memorial made a forthright appeal to the States General of the Netherlands for immediate recognition of the United States. Published in Dutch, English, and French, it offered all of Europe a radical vision of the ordinary citizen's role in determining political events. In this volume, for the first time, the circumstances and reasoning behind Adams's bold moves in the spring of 1781 are presented in full.
- Hardcover 2003
- Papers of John Adams, Volume 12, October 1781 - April 1782
- John Adams
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Anne Decker Cecere
- Edited by Margaret A. Hogan
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson
- Edited by Jennifer Shea
- Edited by C. James Taylor
- Edited by Celeste Walker
- This volume chronicles Adams's efforts, against great odds, to achieve formal recognition of the new United States. The documents include his vigorous response to criticism of his seemingly unorthodox methods by those who would have preferred that he pursue a different course, including Congress's newly appointed secretary for foreign affairs, Robert R. Livingston.
- Hardcover 2004
- Papers of John Adams, Volume 13, 1 May - 26 October 1782
- John Adams
- Gregg L. Lint, Volume editor
- C. James Taylor, Volume editor
- Margaret A. Hogan, Volume editor
- Jessie May Rodrique, Volume editor
- Mary T. Claffey, Volume editor
- Hobson Woodward, Volume editor
- John Adams was a shrewd observer of the political and diplomatic world in which he functioned and his comments on events and personalities remain the most candid and revealing of any American in Europe. In 1782, Adams focused his energies on raising a loan from Dutch bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American commercial treaty. This volume chronicles Adams's efforts to achieve these objectives, but it also provides an unparalleled view of eighteenth-century American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the eight-year war of the American Revolution.
- Hardcover 2006
- Papers of John Adams, Volume 14, 27 October 1782 - 31 May 1783
- John Adams
- Gregg L. Lint, Volume editor
- C. James Taylor, Volume editor
- Hobson Woodward, Volume editor
- Margaret A. Hogan, Volume editor
- Mary T. Claffey, Volume editor
- Sara B. Sikes, Volume editor
- Judith S. Graham, Volume editor
- John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France.
- Hardcover 2008
- Papers of John Adams, Volumes 9 and 10, March 1780 - December 1780
- John Adams
- Edited by Gregg L. Lint
- Edited by Joanna Revelas
- Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson
- Edited by Celeste Walker
- Edited by Anne Decker
- These volumes chronicle Adams' efforts to convince the British people and their leaders that Britain's economic survival demanded an immediate peace; his "snarling growling" debate with the French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, over the proper Franco-American relationship; and his struggle to obtain a loan in the Netherlands, where policies were dictated by Mammon rather than republican virtue. Adams' writings, diplomatic dispatches, and personal correspondence all make clear the scope of his intelligence gathering and his propaganda efforts in the British, French, and Dutch press.
- Hardcover 1996
- Reading the Early Republic
- Robert A. Ferguson
- Rebellion, slavery, and treason--the mingled stories of the Revolution--still haunt national thought. Ferguson shows that the legacy that made the country remains the idea of what it is still trying to become. He also has much to say about the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Religious Enthusiasm in the New World
- David S. Lovejoy
- In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and America, established society branded as "enthusiasts" those unconventional but religiously devout extremists who stepped across orthodox lines and claimed an intimate, emotional relationship with God. This book is a study of the enthusiasts who migrated to the American colonies as well as those who emerged there. It provides essential historical perspective to the current interest in popular religion.
- Hardcover 1985
- Revolutions
- David Brion Davis
- Hardcover
- The Urban Crucible
- Gary B. Nash
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback