French & Indian War

Neal Asbury, Jean-Pierre Isbouts | September 2022

By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become.

Carving Up the Americas

Neal Asbury, Jean-Pierre Isbouts | September 2022

By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become.

The Young George Washington

Peter Stark | Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books

Ambitious, temperamental, and passionate, George Washington learned the skills in the French and Indian War that laid the groundwork for the great leader that he would become.

Excerpted from the George Washington Book Prize finalist Young Washington: H

Holding Down the Fort

Edwin S. Grosvenor | Fall 2017

Members of the Maryland Forces guard the memories of the dramatic history at Fort Frederick, the best-preserved fort from the former English colonies in America.

As I drove through the Maryland woods to

Wilderness Ordeal

John F. Ross | Summer 2009

250 years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep price.

A dozen miles north of the British fort of Crown Point on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, amid the buttonbush, bulrush, and cattail wetlands that crowded Otter Creek’s delta, Major Robert Rogers glassed down the lake for the lateen sails of a patrolling enemy French sloop or schooner. Pulled into hiding within the marsh lay 17 whaleboats, each bearing eight oars and provisions for a month. It was Saturday, September 15, 1759, in the midst of the French and Indian War, the titanic struggle between the French and British empires for dominion over North America.

This Is Tranquil Deerfield

The Editors | April 1966

As it Looked Ninety Years Ago…

The Battle That Won An Empire

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart | December 1959

By a brilliant maneuver young James Wolfe conquered “impregnable” Quebec—and secured North America for the English-speaking peoples

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Ambrose, Stephen E.

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was a historian and professor who wrote on military history, presidential history, and American expansion and foreign policy. Ambrose has been praised for his biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, and for helping to galvanize interest in World War II.

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Bird, Kai

Kai Bird is a historian and Executive Director of Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He is best known for writing about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vietnam War, US-Middle East relations and biographies of political figures. Bird is the author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, a New York Times bestseller. His most recent book is The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

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