War of 1812

The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides listeners with a concise biography....

Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the new country faced....

He was a rich, powerful aristocrat, a merchant king who loved English culture and fashion, and, above all, he was a loyal British subject with ambitions of a lordship in England. There simply was no doubt about it: John Hancock was the least likely man in Boston to start a rebellion....

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....

The first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than 20 years, and the first to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States....

Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were....

By pulling back the curtain on the political, shortsighted, and self-interested intentions of the founding fathers in passing the Bill of Rights, Carol Berkin reveals the inherent weakness....

Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove few leaders could've done worse....

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears....

Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors....

In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution....

Generations have been told that Aaron Burr was a betrayer. It is time to discover the real Aaron Burr....

Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea....

Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive work about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history....

At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy....

This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers—yet changed the world forever....

This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years....

In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history....

Award-winning author John Ferling is a leading authority on the American Revolution....

With sweep, passion, and attention to detail, historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical narrative that's as fast-paced and compelling as the best fiction....