Revolutionary War Books

The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire. - Horace Walpole In late 1753, Virginia’s colonial governo...

I jumped over the walls and ran for about half a mile where balls flew like hailstones and cannon roared like thunder. - Colonist Peter Brown to h...

The image of a young soldier-scholar sitting in his bunk, writing by candlelight while enemy shells explode overhead certainly appeals to the roman...

Joseph Plum Martin - Private Yankee Doodle - recreates the daily life of the Revolutionary soldier as no one else has ever done! He withholds nothi...

At over two-dozen national parks, the American Revolution awaits discovery. The essays in this handbook are a tool in the process of rediscovering ...

Who owned the Ohio valley? What were the limits of the French’s incontestable territory? What was the goal of M. de Jumonville’s mission? And did W...

The battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, mark the start of the American Revolutionary War. On this day, tensions finally boiled ove...