Chronological Period/18th Century
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
$19.99 Add to cartAn entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward’s The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of th
- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12, 2008
- ISBN10: 015603462X
- Language: English
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Outlander
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01, 1991
- ISBN10: 0385302304
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant respo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955546X
- Language: English
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John Adams
$24.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullou… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0743223136
- Language: English
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The Fourth of July Story
$8.99 Read moreAn accessible story of America’s birthday brings alive the history and spirit of the Fourth of July, with an introduction to the fight for independence and the events and people that shaped American t… [more below]
- Author: Dalgliesh, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0689718764
- Language: English
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
$15.99 Add to cartNewbery Medal Winner
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.
Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world–Salem in the early days,
- Author: Latham, Jean Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19, 2003
- ISBN10: 0618250743
- Language: English
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1776
$19.99 Add to cartAmerica’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on b… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0743226720
- Language: English
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
$47.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Hardcover)
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0195039149
- Language: English
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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
$11.95 Add to cartThomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution–and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 019953800X
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
$22.00 Add to cartIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our nation
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 074325807X
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501168703
- Language: English
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
$18.00 Add to cartIf the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses
- Author: Manjapra, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982123494
- Language: English
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Ask for It
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bared to You: “Plenty of sizzling passion and dangerous drama.” —Booklist
Though he’s experienced much as an agent to the Crown, nothing incites Marcu- Series: Georgian #1
- Author: Day, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 075829042X
- Language: English
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African Americans in the Revolutionary War
$15.95 Add to cartIn this enlightening and informative work, military historian and author Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning reveals the under-acknowledged, critical, and heroic role both enslaved and free African Americans
- Author: Lanning, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 0806541164
- Language: English
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
$20.00 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092165
- Language: English
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Alexander Hamilton
$23.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034758
- Language: English
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
$6.99 Add to cart“This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712”–P. [7].
- Author: Lynch, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 07, 2009
- ISBN10: 9562916553
- Language: English
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The Rosetta Key: An Ethan Gage Adventure
$14.99 Add to cart“An utterly captivating romp from the treacherous tunnels beneath Jerusalem to the lost City of Ghosts (Petra, Jordan) to the tumult of revolutionary Paris….Dietrich spins a merry magical mystery to
- Series: Ethan Gage Adventures #2
- Author: Dietrich, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062191578
- Language: English
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
$18.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes Ladies of Liberty a follow up to Founding Mothers in which she examines the lives and times of the women who have helped shape America.
In thi
- Author: Roberts, Cokie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 24, 2009
- ISBN10: 0060782358
- Language: English
