War of 1812

The Constitutional Convention affected nothing less than a revolution in the nature of the American government....

A compelling new biography of America's most powerful speaker of the House, who held the divided nation together for three decades and who was Lincoln's guiding light....

The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States....

Liberty's First Crisis, writer Charles Slack tells the story of the 1798 Sedition Act, the crucial moment when high ideals met real-world politics and the country's future hung in the balance....

The focus of the opening campaign of the War of 1812 was Detroit, one of the significant launching points for the invasion of Canada....

John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail....

Abraham Lincoln is the central axis of this story about America's seemingly unstoppable march toward war....

William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned to serve as chief justice of the United States. In this provocative assessment, author Jeffrey Rosen reveals Taft's crucial role in shaping how America balances populism against the rule of law....

The definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader....

In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th century....

Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate....

Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly appearance - are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals....

Jon Meacham, in American Lion, has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency and America itself....

On Hallowed Ground also tells the story of America as reflected in her greatest national cemetery....

Throughout the 19th century, American settlers pushing across the Western frontier came into contact with diverse American tribes....

Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the new country faced....

Master historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands crafts a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be....

Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812....

From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding....

From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South....