War of 1812

A stunning revision of our founding document’s evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution? Listen to find out more....

Born just six years after the founding of the United States, Martin Van Buren seemed destined for politics. Known throughout his career as “Little Van” for his short stature, his impact on America was certainly not minimal....

For the People, For the Country tells the remarkable story of how the most eloquent public speaker of the American Revolutionary era and a leading antifederalist during debates over ratification of the Constitution reemerged on the side of the federalists and once again changed history.

In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history....

In this marvel of compression and comprehension, we see Jefferson more clearly than in the massive studies of earlier generations....

During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts....

In Our Presidents and Their Prayers, Senator Paul stands up to the doubters in this most timely and important affirmation of how faith and prayer have always guided us....

The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius - from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his dreams of Reconstruction....

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling their former colony....

Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage. The acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently....

The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory....

Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of 10 extraordinary individuals - some renowned and some forgotten. Tartakovsky brings to life their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in revolutionary America to the 21st century....

Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image....

This engaging narrative history deftly illustrates the War of 1812 as it played out in the Old Northwest - Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and bordering parts of Canada....

Illuminating Franklin and Washington’s relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement of the American project....

Understanding the War Between the States is a supplemental history by 16 writers that enables a more complete and truthful study of American history....

How George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the nation through four major crises and caused the first stirrings of American nationalism....

Citizens of the United States of America are very proud of their heritage; the country is known as the "land of opportunity"....

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when elite Virginians joined other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule....

James Madison was a man of quiet faith who was also intellectually inspired in miraculous ways. Often called the Father of the Constitution, Madison believed rights of conscience were gifts of God, and he was thoroughly committed to establishing a nation conceived in liberty....