Category: Early Republic
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern Word, 1788-1800 (2007) by Jay Winik
Normally I don’t pay much attention to the endorsements on the back cover of a book. “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern Word, 1788-1800” (2007) by Jay Winik was an exception. Some of the most distinguished historians and biographers in the country lined up to heap lavish praise on this book:…
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The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1980) by Drew McCoy
It was commonly assumed in Revolutionary America that a republican form of government could only survive in an extraordinary society of distinctly moral and independent people. The political economy of the nation played a central role in either fostering or destroying that morality and independence. Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans each had clear and sharply…
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic (2019) by Gordon Wood
Gordon S. Wood is an American institution. He is one of the most influential historians of early America that has ever lived. In “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic,” the third volume in the epic Oxford History of the United States, Wood explores the tumultuous decades between the ratification of the Constitution…
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Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (2010) by Robert Martello
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” So begins one of the most famous poems in American history, “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860). Published forty-two years after the death of the great American patriot, Longfellow’s poem cemented Paul Revere’s name in American history. In the…
