Study how a president is elected in the United States. Get to know the process of voting in a general election and what role the electoral college plays. Follow how political parties choose their candidates on the campaign trail leading to election day.

A biography of the patriot of the Revolution who had many trades, among them silver work, manufacture of copper, casting of bells, engraving, and dentistry.

"The history of the feuds between the founding fathers during the course of the Revolution"--Provided by publisher. Can't get enough of Hamilton? Think the British were the only ones we squabbled with during the Revolutionary War? Think again! A unique look at how the founding fathers settled their differences in their quest to settle a nation. The Revolutionary War was full of bloody battles and broken treaties. But it wasn't just about the colonies...

"A ... scholar's history of the American Revolution, from its origins to its aftermath, which emphasizes the contributions of groups usually omitted in this story: Native Americans, African Americans, and women"--

The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal...

In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.

Relates the Revolutionary War adventures of colonists who dressed as Mowhawk Indians and dumped tea in Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxes, interspersed with verses of original song lyrics to be sung to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean."

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...

Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.

A study of the black patriots of the American Revolution, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.