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Harry M. Ward
The first biography of one of George Washington’s most able and controversial generals examines the military career of William Maxwell from British army commissary to commander of the New Jersey…
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The revolutionary war was not a polite conflict between orderly troops and gentlemanly officers. Civilians on the home front suffered considerably. This account depicts the ugly side of the War…
Virginia’s capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, brutality, unsanitary conditions, and pandemics. One of the biggest stains in the city’s past was the spectacle…
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A comprehensive study of the formative years of the Department of War, and the struggle to win public acceptance for maintaining a standing national army.
Spanning the period 1775 to 1783, this book is a synthesis which assesses the impact of war upon the American people.
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These portraits of 28 Virginia Revolutionary soldiers expand the historical record of those who have earned the appellation of hero. Whether as infantryman, cavalryman, marine, militiaman, spy, frontier fighter or…
Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia’s capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond were held…
A kind of sub-society existed in Richmond, as in other urban areas, of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and certain thieves. By looking at the lower sort of deception and crime…
This research monograph by a senior distinguished historian of the American Revolutionary War and its aftermath discusses the legacies of that conflict in a newer, darker context. That context being…
Professor Emeritus Harry M Ward (University of Richmond)
The book titled ""The United Colonies of New England, 1643-1690"" is written by Harry M. Ward. It is a historical account of the formation and development of the United Colonies…
