United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
$29.95 Read moreIn the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally
- Author: Eustace, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495879
- Language: English
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A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse
$49.95 Read moreIn the winter of 1692 something terrible and frightening began in Salem Village. It started with several villagers having strange fits, screaming, and unnaturally contorting themselves, and ended with… [more below]
- Author: Gagnon, Daniel A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1594163677
- Language: English
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
$18.00 Add to cart“‘The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America, ‘ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”–Wall Street Journal
A master- Author: Gallagher, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130064
- Language: English
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The Road to Ticonderoga: The Campaign of 1758 in the Champlain Valley
$34.95 Read moreThe British campaign to capture Fort Carillon on the Ticonderoga Peninsula in 1758 resulted in the largest battle of the French and Indian War. Crafted by Prime Minister William Pitt, the scope and sc… [more below]
- Author: Laramie, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 159416407X
- Language: English
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The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
$20.00 Add to cartBANCROFF PRIZE WINNER – King Philip’s War, the excruciating racial war–colonists against Indigenous peoples–that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in Am… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702628
- Language: English
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
$24.95 Read moreOften viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machi… [more below]
- Author: Walczynski, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0252087356
- Language: English
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Unfaltering Trust: How Pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. and His Descendants Helped Build America
$23.99 Add to cartWhen he left England in 1630 in search of religious freedom and opportunity during the Great Migration to the New World, pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. could never have imagined the vast impact his
- Author: Ziegler, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1532086199
- Language: English
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General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
$24.95 Add to cartThe classic account of the lives & exploits of the most notorious pirates of the Golden Age-from Anne Bonny to Blackbeard
- Author: Captain Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 1599219050
- Language: English
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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
$16.00 Add to cartSixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the Engli… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, David Beers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261954
- Language: English
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
$29.99 Add to cartJames Merrell’s brilliant book is an account of the “go-betweens,” the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a refl
- Author: Merrell, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319768
- Language: English
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The Mayflower: A Captivating Guide to a Cultural Icon in the History of the United States of America and the Pilgrims’ Journey from E
$25.99 Add to cartDid you know that not every passenger aboard the Mayflower was a Pilgrim?
In fact, of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, only about 40 were fleeing England for religious reasons. And if you want to l
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637163967
- Language: English
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My Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartMy Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond is a collection of complex life stories that interweave and meander through the ever-changing world of eightee
- Author: Prather, Michelle Freret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1737592681
- Language: English
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The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out of print. It contains a separate chapter about Black… [more below]
- Author: Rankin, Hugh F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: January 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0865263310
- Language: English
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The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights
$4.99 Add to cartThe United States Constitution and Bill of Rights (1787-1789) is a foundational document of American democracy. Written by delegates attending the Constitutional Convention, a gathering intended to re
- Series: Mint Editions (Historical Documents and Treaties)
- Author: Editions, Mint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513279629
- Language: English
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The Most Perfect Justice: Alexander McGillivray and George Washington Strive to Save the Creek Nation
$10.50 Add to cartAlexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation’s first president in 1789.
Both men faced uncerta
- Author: Bouler, Jean Lufkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1733449701
- Language: English
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The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen
$15.95 Add to cartTo know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, b… [more below]
- Author: Laycock, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1493018825
- Language: English
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
$16.99 Add to cartAmerica, how well do you know your history?
- Who quelled a coup d’etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses?
- Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor?
- Which first lady refused t
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1595551115
- Language: English
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The Salem Witch Hunt: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
$15.97 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Salem Witch Hunt, then keep reading…
Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodie
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1950922677
- Language: English
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The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the New World
$34.95 Read moreA Common Man’s Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America
In the winter of 1650-51, one hundred fifty ragged and hungry Scottish prisoners of war arrive… [more below]- Author: Gardner, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 20 2018
- ISBN10: 159416312X
- Language: English
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing s- Author: Fraser, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250108578
- Language: English
