Alexander Hamilton

Peggy Schuyler has always felt like she’s existed in the shadows of her beloved sisters: the fiery, intelligent Angelica and beautiful, sweet Eliza. But it’s in the throes of a chaotic war that Peggy finds herself a central figure....

John Adams once snobbishly dismissed George Washington as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement....

Richard Labunski offers a dramatic account of a time when the entire American experiment hung in the balance, only to be saved by the most unlikely of heroes....

How George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the nation through four major crises and caused the first stirrings of American nationalism....

Soon after the new Constitution took effect and George Washington became president, the United States was in serious danger....

Dr. John Sullivan attempts to travel forward in time but an unanticipated twist jettisons him back to the year 1779. There, in the midst of a ...

Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement....

Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under America's spotlight - and we need him now more than ever....

The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to the New York Times best-selling Alex and Eliza: A Love Story....

Alexander Hamilton, unlike many of the other founding fathers of the United States, was born outside of wedlock and was an orphan at the age of 13 after his mother died....

If you’ve ever found American history boring or hard to understand, this book is for you. Inside, a bright, curious student poses questions about...

In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman reveals the ways in which a dozen notable revolutionaries deeply affected the finances and birth of the new country while making and losing their fortunes....

This book presents a comprehensive history of the existential war waged between the Anglo-Dutch imperial system and what became known as the ...

Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another man's wife....

In Becoming Madison, Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the life of our fourth president. His focus is on Madison before he turned 36....

Washington remains a distant figure to many Americans, a failing that acclaimed author Paul Johnson sets out to rectify with this brilliantly vivid, sharply etched portrait....

The book features a great collection of America’s founding fathers and mothers, whose contribution to the fight for independence, human rights, democracy, and proper governance will never be forgotten....

America watched aghast as its trading partner Haiti, a rich hothouse of sugar plantations and French colonial profit, exploded in a rebellion led by former slave Toussaint L'Ouverture....

What is the American Dream? Depending upon which period a person is referring to, the American Dream can shift somewhat with the changing tides of history....

Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America's Founding Fathers....