A new account of Washington at his best, in a northern theater that has previously been overlooked.

The story of the Continental Congress from 1774, before the United States became a nation, to 1778, when, as a new nation fighting for independence, it secured an ally: France. Letters and documents reveal aggravations and triumphs of frazzled delegates to the Continental Congress as it evolved into an improvisational national government.

The story of the Continental Congress from 1778—just after it secured an alliance with France—to 1794, when the War of Independence ended. Letters and documents reveal how the new nation’s improvisational government struggled to hold the union and the alliance together and avert financial ruin amidst war, treachery, and troop mutinies.

The closing months of 1776 saw the Continental Army, under George Washington, suffer a series of defeats that threatened to collapse the American Revolution in its infancy. At the end of December 1776, with his soldiers’ enlistments about to expire, Washington knew he needed to make a bold move, and he needed to win. The “Ten Crucial Days” winter c

How leadership skills in South Carolina helped result in Patriot victory in the Revolutionary War.

An uplifting work of black history in the context of the American War for Independence.