Celebrate America!
There’s no better time than the month of July to learn more about our nation’s history. Here are some new books worth checking out:
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
By David Reynolds
In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of U.S. history, from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama, prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith—both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country’s expansion.
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
By T.H. Breen
Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm families living in small communities—were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority during the American Revolution.
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United StatesBy David Reynolds
In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of U.S. history, from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama, prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith—both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country’s expansion.
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People By T.H. Breen
Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm families living in small communities—were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority during the American Revolution.
A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden HistoryBy Kenneth C. Davis
In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the “dream of our founders” spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly have imagined. And it was an era that led to the great, tragic conflagration that followed—the American Civil War.
Betsy Ross and the Making of AmericaBy Marla R. Miller
The first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War.
Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creation of "the first flag," Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. This authoritative work provides a close look at the famous seamstress while shedding new light on the lives of the artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its tools, ships, and homes.
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America By Jack Rakove
Much has been written about the military struggle that led to independence, but historian Jack Rakove is far more concerned with the intellectual one: the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy, and society that shaped the very idea of an American nation. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country’s birth, from 1772 to 1792, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture—in a way no single biography ever could—the intensely creative period of the Republic’s founding.
- Lisa S.
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