American Revolution

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson's "The Fate of the Day" is the second book in his planned trilogy about America's war of independence from Britain from 1776-1783.

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In 'The Fate of the Day,' a historian recounts a perilous period in the American Revolutionary War

The second installment of author Rick Atkinson's "The Revolution Trilogy" describes a difficult, pivotal phase of the American war of independence from Britain.

Joseph J. Ellis is a leading scholar of American history whose prolific writings focus on the lives and times of the nation's founders. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for "Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation," and "American Sphinx," his biography of Thomas Jefferson, won the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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"The Cause": Historian Joseph Ellis on our Revolution's complex legacy

Tom Hall, Malarie Pinkard-Pierre, Rob Sivak

The Pulitzer Prize winning historian finds that today's national divisions over race, national identity and democratic ideals were already seething at the time of the American Revolution.

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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

Sheilah Kast

In his new history: "Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom," Russell Shorto Russell Shorto traces the disparate lives of six people in the 18th…