Chronological Period/18th Century
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Woods Runner
$10.99 Add to cartSamuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that Am
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 037585908X
- Language: English
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Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.
Winner of the 2011 Pul- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119966
- Language: English
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The Courage of Sarah Noble
$5.99 Add to cartIn this Newbery Honor book classic, young Sarah learns how to be brave even when the world is strange and new.
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new- Series: Ready-For-Chapters
- Author: Dalgliesh, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 30, 1991
- ISBN10: 0689715404
- Language: English
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093641
- Language: English
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God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man
$29.00 Read more“Vivid.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A dazzling addition to the history of the American Revolution.” ―Kirkus Review (starred)
“Finally… a full and fascinating portrait of a true hero of the Amer- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250281954
- Language: English
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Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben
$24.99 Read moreA graphic novel biography of Baron von Steuben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual who influenced the course of US history during the Revolutionary War despite being omitted from our te… [more below]
- Author: Trujillo, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1419743724
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
$35.00 Add to cartThis “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316441112
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$45.00 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035587
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$25.00 Read moreChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature.
Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details an
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Bronte, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1912714078
- Language: English
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George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides
$6.95 Add to cartThere are two sides to every story. Rosalyn Schanzer’s engaging and wonderfully illustrated book brings to life both sides of the American Revolution.
The narrative introduces anew the two enemies, bo- Author: Schanzer, Rosalyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 09, 2007
- ISBN10: 1426300425
- Language: English
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Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #10): A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
$15.99 Add to cartDiscover the story of the Haitian Revolution–the largest uprising of enslaved people in history–in Blades of Freedom, a Hazardous Tale from author-illustrator Nathan Hale in the New York Times bests… [more below]
- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #10
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 141974691X
- Language: English
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One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #1): A Revolutionary War Tale
$15.99 Add to cartMeet America’s first spy, Nathan Hale, in this installment of the New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tale graphic novel series!
“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, ac- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 141970396X
- Language: English
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Frankenstein
$6.99 Add to cartNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and oth- Series: Changing Our World
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553212478
- Language: English
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Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale
$15.99 Add to cartMeet French nobleman and American Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette in author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s New York Times bestselling Hazard Tales graphic novel series.
STARRED REVIEW *”Act- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 1419731483
- Language: English
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Chains
$8.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling first novel in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both
- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416905863
- Language: English
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Outlander
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.
One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s T- Series: Outlander #1
- Author: Gabaldon, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0385319959
- Language: English
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
$29.95 Add to cartA rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.
Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with th- Author: Barbier, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0674271777
- Language: English
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The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn this Newbery Honor Book, a thirteen-year-old boy struggles to survive on his own in the wilderness of eighteenth-century Maine.
When Matt’s father leaves him on his own to guard their new cabin in t
- Author: Speare, Elizabeth George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 02, 2011
- ISBN10: 0547577117
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Stockings Spy
$16.95 Add to cartPhiladelphia 1777 is no place for the faint of heart. The rumble of war with the British grows louder each day, and spies for and against the Patriots are everywhere. No one is above suspicion. Still,… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1585362301
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$19.95 Read more2023 PROSE Award in European History
“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”
—Washington Post “Reveals how pre- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295455
- Language: English
