United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse
$29.95 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1594164142
- Language: English
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
$16.99 Add to cartA resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times’ infamous “1619 Project,” labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513065
- Language: English
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
$20.00 Add to cartTobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when European… [more below]
- Author: Gately, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139604
- Language: English
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
$35.00 Add to cartFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0151015155
- Language: English
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
$18.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventee
- Author: Warren, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493248
- Language: English
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
$22.00 Add to cartA multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Unite- Series: Penguin History of the United States
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002100
- Language: English
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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
$19.98 Add to cartIn this superb volume in Oxford’s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of une… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195331273
- Language: English
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An “Uncertaine Rumor” of Land: New Thoughts on the English Founding of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$15.00 Add to cartThe years 1620 and 1621 saw three small camps – a former Virginia Company salter and his “Jamestown bride;” a recently arrived captain with hired tenants from the crush at Kicotan; ten tenants for the
- Author: Hall, Jenean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0983266018
- Language: English
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La Florida: Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories
$34.95 Add to cartLa Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove Ameri
- Author: Kokomoor, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1683343522
- Language: English
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
$30.00 Add to cartIn this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years’ War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed,… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0375706364
- Language: English
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$18.00 Add to cart*National Bestseller*
A sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths–about race, gender, and immigration–exposed by the stor… [more below]- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974605
- Language: English
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Another Day: More Stories from the Early Colonial Records of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$21.99 Add to cart“Error in history is like a flock of sheep jumping over a bridge; if one goes, the rest all follow.”
(Charles Campbell, cited by Jennings Cropper Wise in Ye Kingdom of Accawmacke)
In Another Day, Jenean
- Author: Hall, Jenean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0983266034
- Language: English
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775
$24.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1966, R. J. Dickson’s Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million p… [more below]
- Author: Dickson, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0901905178
- Language: English
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly dim… [more below]
- Author: Horn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024904
- Language: English
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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
$18.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly framed . . . fascinating . . . a well-told story of discovery, conquest, business, and politics.” — Kirkus Reviews
Four centuries ago, and 14 years before the Mayflower, a group of men–l
- Author: Woolley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 006009057X
- Language: English
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
$19.99 Add to cartThis acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old “witch” chained to a dank … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 30, 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811596
- Language: English
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
$19.00 Add to cartThe book that launched environmental history, William Cronon’s Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, Willia- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0809016346
- Language: English
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate th- Author: Roach, Marilynne K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821206
- Language: English
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American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native Ameri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Boyer, Paul S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 019538914X
- Language: English
