Chronological Period/18th Century
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The Wealth of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is generally regarded as the foundation of contemporary economic thought. Adam Smith, a Scottish professor of moral philosophy, expounded the then-revolu
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: January 25 1994
- ISBN10: 0679424733
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$45.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of Napoleon — hailed as “magnificent” by The Economist.
“What a novel my life has been!” Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by- Author: Zamoyski, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0465055931
- Language: English
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We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartChristianity Today Book Award
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistThe success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed
- Author: McKenzie, Robert Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0830852964
- Language: English
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Washington’s Crossing
$23.99 Add to cartSix months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 019518159X
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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The Constitution of the United States of America and Other Founding Documents
$12.99 Add to cartThis elegant hardback edition of the US Constitution and other founding documents is presented with Wibalin binding, gold embossing and gilded page edges.
Signed on September 17, 1787, the Constituti- Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1398822639
- Language: English
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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
$16.99 Add to cartHistorian Carol Berkin’s A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution is a rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future.
“Just as the … [more below]
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028727
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$7.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743487567
- Language: English
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Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner That Survived the British and 200 Years–And the Armistead Family Who Saved It
$30.00 Read moreOur Flag Was Still There details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spangled Banner–from Fort McHenry in 1814, when Francis Scott Key first saw it, to the Smithsonian in 202… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587333
- Language: English
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The U.S. Constitution: Explained–Clause by Clause–For Every American Today
$12.00 Add to cartPoliticians come and go, but the Constitution stands as the supreme law of the land. Setting forth the workings of our democracy, it is the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics… [more below]
- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0525562540
- Language: English
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The Infamous Rosalie
$19.95 Add to cartLisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories
- Author: Trouillot, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803240260
- Language: English
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When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots
$9.99 Read moreNow in paperback, Lynne Cheney’s dramatic and New York Times bestselling account of a great leader’s patriotic feat.
Christmas night, 1776, was a troubled time for our young country. In the six months- Author: Cheney, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1442444231
- Language: English
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The Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartToussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collecti… [more below]
- Author: L’Ouverture, Toussaint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1788736575
- Language: English
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Saint Germain: Master Alchemist
$16.95 Add to cartIn the 1700s, Saint Germain dazzled royal courts with his amazing alchemical feats such as removing the flaws from diamonds and became known as the Wonderman of Europe. His skills were praised by Loui… [more below]
- Series: Meet the Masters
- Author: Prophet, Mark L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0922729956
- Language: English
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The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
$35.00 Add to cartA panoramic, “persuasive and inspiring” (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress an… [more below]
- Author: Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603192
- Language: English
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The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
$46.58 Add to cartThe untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing–and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create
In The Jewish World of Alexan- Author: Porwancher, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211159
- Language: English
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pe… [more below]
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 639
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0345408772
- Language: English
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
$7.00 Read moreSlave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 048640661X
- Language: English
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Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
$32.95 Add to cartBy the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free,” the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins a… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806192739
- Language: English
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A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower
$17.95 Add to cartA thrilling tale, based on a true story, of one woman’s tremendous courage and incomparable wit in trying to rescue her husband from the Tower of London the night before he is to be executed.
The heroi
- Author: Bernstein, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 173649905X
- Language: English
