Book Event Books 2024

A groundbreaking and essential recovery of history, fully exploring the overlooked story of the critical aspect of America’s Revolutionary War foug...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING DECEMBER 10, 2024 A sweeping and "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history ...

Cognella Press proudly presents the release of "Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women" authored by Diana B. Car...

The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, prioritizing th...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON OCTOBER 2, 2024 The surprising history of how Americans have contested the meaning...

A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing during the formative years of the American republic. Tyson Reed...

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States, revealing how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for his ...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON MAY 9, 2024 A fascinating examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to ...

John Trumbull (1756–1843) lived through the American Revolution firsthand, serving alongside George Washington and Horatio Gates, enduring gunfire,...

Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country’s system of governance i...

Does democracy truly wither away in obscurity, as the adage implies? This book exposes the fact that modern democracy actually originated in secrec...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON APRIL 23, 2024   In Unfriendly to Liberty, Christopher F. Minty explores the orig...

Tom Hand's An American Triumph: America's Founding Era through the Lives of Ben Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams skillfully intertwines...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON MARCH 7, 2024   The first full account of the relationship between George Washi...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON MAY 23, 2024 How the Best Did It is an accessible and insightful explanation of ho...

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and...

2024 George Washington Prize Finalist  The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most drama...

2024 George Washington Prize Finalist  Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phi...

TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON APRIL 11, 2024   From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. B...

The first comprehensive history of the Mason-Dixon Line―a dramatic story of imperial rivalry and settler-colonial violence, the bonds of slavery an...

Misinformation Nation by Jordan E. Taylor - Copyright 2022 - ISBN 9781421444499 - Hardcover, 288 pages. Runner-up of the American Journalism Histor...

2024 George Washington Prize Finalist  During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculati...

The fighting prowess of United States Marines is second to none, but few know of the Corps’ humble beginnings and what it achieved during the earl...

Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 by Ricardo A. Herrera  – Copyright 2022 – ISBN 9781469667317 – Hardcover. In t...