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Unlike most editions of Poor Richard, this one includes essentially all of the text, not just the aphorisms and sayings....

The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another for the liberty of African Americans. Standing in Their Own Light restores these African American patriots to their rightful place in the historical struggle for independence....

The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....

Our planet's narrative is a blend of resilience and adaptation. Despite challenges, the human spirit seeks progress and enlightenment. Our shared humanity unites us through stories, aspirations, and dreams....

In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence....

A vivid new portrait of the formative years that made George Washington a great leader, from a highly respected and accomplished historian....

As we look at our nation's history from God's point of view, we begin to have an idea of how much we owe a very few, and how much is still at stake....

A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence....

Autumn of the Black Snake tells how the early republic battled the coalition of Indians that came closer than any adversary, before or since, to halting the nation's expansion....

In 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces....

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career....

In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war....

From the best-selling author of Washington’s Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroism of the men from Marblehead, Massachusetts...

In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America’s transition from colony to nation....

The story of George Washington’s first crisis of the fledgling republic: In the war’s waning days, the American Revolution neared collapse when Washington’s senior officers were rumored to be on the edge of mutiny....

Historian Sarah Hopkins Bradford details the life of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was born into slavery but escaped to lead other enslaved people to freedom....

It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought....

Americans have been fascinated by the Revolutionary period and the patriots who led the growing resistance movement against British authority....

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political "lives"....

From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew....