Book Review: Brothers at Arms
/An invigorating new history looks at the American Revolution from a wide-angle international view
Read MoreBook Review: Whirlwind
/John Ferling, great historian of 18th century America, here tells the story of the American Revolution itself, in typically riveting fashion
Read MoreBook Review: Band of Giants
/We all know the names of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams, but a terrifically engaging new book reminds us that the American Revolution's supporting cast was no less fascinating
Read MoreBook Review: George Washington - Gentleman Warrior
/A born warrior striving to become a refined gentleman, or a refined gentleman striving to learn a warrior's ways? A new book looks at Washington the military commander
Read MoreBook Review: Jefferson and Hamilton
/A master historian analyzes the tempestuous relationship between two titans of the newborn United States
Read MoreBook Review: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody
/A crucial turning-point battle in the American Revolution is given an extensively detailed and tradition-challenging new history
Read MoreBook Review: The Men Who Lost America
/Clinton, Gage, Burgoyne, the Howe brothers - and of course Lord Cornwallis: their names are synonymous in the United States with bumbling defeat, but a rousing new book takes a fresh look at all these formerly infamous figures
Read MoreBook Review: Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor
/Richard Beeman's new book covers some familiar - sacred? - ground
Read MoreBook Review: James Madison
/An accessible, well-researched new biography takes a largely approving look at America's fourth president, James Madison.
Read MoreBook Review: 1781
/A flinty new account of a pivotal year in the American Revolution
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Letter from Boston: Toward a New History
/Boston, so often reproved for living in its memories, may well be poised to lead the future, not in spite of its history but because of it.
Read MoreThe Golden Touch
/A new biography explores the life of the erratic and headstrong 'forgotten' Founding Father who bankrolled a revolution and guided a new republic.
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Citizen Washington
/Twelve years after its first appearance, "Citizen Washington," a historical novel by bestselling author William Martin, gets an attractive new paperback just in time for about a million American summer vacations.
Read MoreAmerican Golgotha
/When colonial tensions were at a boiling point, the British garrisoned troops on Boston Common and put the city under military occupation - until a certain Massacre, that is.
Read MoreRevolution in a Half Shell
/During the American Revolution, colonists ran blockades, fought sea-battles and ... sent in an attack-submarine? No, it's not time travel - it's the amazing story of the Turtle.
Read MoreThe Second End of the War
/The American Revolution’s neat conclusion at Yorktown is a familiar story from the history books. Thom Daly reads Perils of Peace as Thomas Fleming’s noble if flawed attempt to add more detail to our easy picture of events.
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