Chronological Period/18th Century
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Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
$18.00 Read moreMost Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling… [more below]
- Series: Dangerous Nation Trilogy
- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0375724915
- Language: English
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The Golden Ocean
$25.99 Add to cartIn the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson a… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315371
- Language: English
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Revolution Song: The Story of America’s Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
$17.95 Read moreAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356213
- Language: English
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The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy’s Golden Age
$35.00 Read moreFollowing the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)–generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne’s War–a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as … [more below]
- Author: Travers, Len
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1594163987
- Language: English
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Isaac Newton
$18.00 Read moreIsaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral–an unheard-of honor for a sub… [more below]
- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400032954
- Language: English
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Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States
$12.95 Read moreWhen Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben, a colorful, charismatic, imposing, and gay military leader from Prussia, presented himself to the Continental Congress in 1778, he had one goal in mind: to whip the… [more below]
- Author: Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1429095555
- Language: English
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The Year of the French
$22.95 Read moreIn 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, foll
- Series: Thomas Flanagan Trilogy
- Author: Flanagan, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 31 2004
- ISBN10: 159017108X
- Language: English
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American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing Our Nation
$25.95 Read moreAn enlightened exploration of history to unite a deeply divided America
The political dialogue in America has collapsed. Raw and bitter emotions such as anger and resentment have crowded out any logic
- Author: Radwell, Seth David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348618
- Language: English
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Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father’s Culinary Adventures
$24.95 Read moreIn this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin’s delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties,… [more below]
- Author: Eighmey, Rae Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1588345637
- Language: English
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North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution
$35.00 Read moreHow the United States was created–a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels
The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence- Author: Lennox, Jeffers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0300226128
- Language: English
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Redcoat
$19.99 Read moreIt is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun.
On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young
- Series: Richard Sharpe
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0060512776
- Language: English
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George Washington: The First President
$16.99 Read moreThe life of George Washington is introduced in this early reader biography. After General Washington led the American colonists to victory in the Revolutionary War, everyone thought he should become t
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Albee, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0062432672
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian
“Accessible and electric…. [Ellis] crisply covers the decis… [more below]- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0307946371
- Language: English
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Patriots, Redcoats and Spies
$14.99 Read moreIn book one of the American Revolutionary War Adventures historical fiction series, readers ages 8-12 can experience the Revolutionary War firsthand in this novel based on actual events. When their fa
- Series: American Revolutionary War Adventures
- Author: Skead, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0310748410
- Language: English
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Burr
$19.00 Add to cartFor readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel–and who served as a successful, if… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708731
- Language: English
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
$21.00 Read moreHere in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066227
- Language: English
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
$22.00 Add to cartA rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0812981200
- Language: English
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Revolution in Virginia, with a New Foreword
$22.95 Read moreUnsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby’s masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions
- Author: Selby, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0879352337
- Language: English
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Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography
$16.95 Read moreDiscover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen’s personal letters outlin… [more below]
- Series: Library of Luminaries
- Author: Alkayat, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1452150214
- Language: English
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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
