Chronological Period/18th Century
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
$26.95 Add to cartThe first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
“An elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native la- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0300255365
- Language: English
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Founding Fathers: A Captivating Guide to Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, Al
$43.99 Add to cartExplore the Captivating Lives of the Founding Fathers
Eight captivating manuscripts in one book:
– Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an American Polymath and a Founding Father of the United Sta
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 730
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480132
- Language: English
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U.S. Constitution for Dummies
$23.99 Add to cartYour complete guide to understanding the U.S. Constitution.
Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amend
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Arnheim, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1119387299
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
$37.00 Add to cartDuring the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on… [more below]
- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697786
- Language: English
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Boston’s Freedom Trail: Trace The Path Of American History
$9.95 Add to cartRelive the birth of our nation along Boston’s historic Freedom Trail with this guide to over twenty-five legendary landmarks. This new edition is fully updated to include the most current information … [more below]
- Series: Boston’s Freedom Trail
- Author: Pietrzyk, Cindi D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 762772980
- Language: English
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The Enemy Harassed: Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777
$24.00 Add to cartAs few books regarding American history have achieved, Jim Stempel’s The Enemy Harassed brings a previously neglected period of the American Revolution to life.
In late December 1776, the American War- Author: Stempel, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637586159
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
$22.99 Add to cartMark Puls delivers a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general who played a key role in all of George Washington’s battles.
During the Siege of Boston, Henry Knox’s amazing 300 mile transpo- Author: Puls, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0230623883
- Language: English
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A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions
$16.95 Add to cartThe Spanish missions of California have long been misrepresented as places of benign and peaceful coexistence between Franciscan friars and California Indians. In fact, the mission friars enslaved the… [more below]
- Author: Castillo, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353048
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartCompletely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437166
- Language: English
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washing… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061139130
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
$5.99 Add to cartPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley was a slave in Boston, the collection was published in
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513277413
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Tahiti
$13.50 Add to cartRomance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European adventurers who discovered the island. It was not just
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0992258855
- Language: English
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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
$37.00 Add to cartAllan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and Ne… [more below]
- Series: Studies in North American Indian History
- Author: Greer, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1316613690
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Ann Bailey: The Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley
$9.95 Add to cartBack in print after more than a century, this book is the only major biography in existence on Ann Bailey. Newly indexed and containing supplemented images and a map, it is also important for genealog… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Virgil E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0966724607
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves
$25.99 Add to cartGiles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
“An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.” –Simon W- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778239
- Language: English
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The History of the United States: A Captivating Guide to American History, Including Events Such as the American Revolution, French and Indian War, Bo
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading…
When the first settlers reached the United States of America and started to chip out a living in the wildernes
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481163
- Language: English
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The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
$21.95 Add to cart. . . .rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills. –Richard Hill, The Naval Review
Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly reader, it will
- Author: Little, Benerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889117
- Language: English
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First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
$39.58 Add to cartHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America
America’s first First Ladies–Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison-- Author: Abrams, Jeanne E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1479890502
- Language: English
