Chronological Period/18th Century
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George Washington’s Revenge: The 1777 New Jersey Campaign and How General Washington Turned Defeat Into the Strategy That Won the Revolution
$34.95 Read moreIn late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By early November, George Washington’s inexperienced army withdrew further into New Jersey and, by the e
- Author: Lefkowitz, Arthur S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0811770419
- Language: English
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
$18.99 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria
Two decades before he led America to independe
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0062416073
- Language: English
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
$18.95 Read moreGlennette Tilley Turner presents thestory of Fort Mose in the only picture book for children about the first free Black community in America.
In 1724, Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0810940566
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Purchase: From Independence to Lewis and Clark
$9.99 Read moreWhen the United States won its independence from Great Britain, it also won new lands. Soon, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the country’s size. These new lands had to be explored and settled. Brave ex… [more below]
- Series: Making a New Nation
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1484635965
- Language: English
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Discover Her Art: Women Artists and Their Masterpieces
$19.99 Read more“An inclusive, easy-to-read guidebook to women artists.” — Publishers Weekly.
“A must for art history curriculum and to diversify biography shelves.” —School Library Journal. Discover Her Art invit- Author: Leibowitz, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1641606142
- Language: English
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The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
$20.00 Read more“The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put t… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1101980052
- Language: English
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George Washington: Our First Leader
$8.99 Read moreGeorge Washington was the first President of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United Stat… [more below]
- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Augusta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 31 1986
- ISBN10: 0020421508
- Language: English
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots
$24.99 Read more“This is the story that I tell my grandchildren at Christmas. I hope that this book will bring the tradition of sharing history to families all across America.”
Christmas night, 1776,
— Lynne Cheney- Author: Cheney, Lynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689870434
- Language: English
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface
$21.00 Read moreThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker c- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0807060984
- Language: English
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Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts
$34.95 Read moreMaritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary, little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. They offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at
- Author: Barnett, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223571
- Language: English
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The Last Kabbalist in Lisbon
$19.00 Add to cartA marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, award-winning author Richard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains.
Just a few ye- Author: Zimler, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670227
- Language: English
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Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation
$29.95 Read moreThese essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University’s involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. It traces Georgetown’s “Slav
- Author: Rothman, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120969
- Language: English
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Alexander Von Humboldt
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the botanist and adventurer.
As a kid, Alexa- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #81
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0711271240
- Language: English
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95 Read moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- Language: English
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
$20.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2002
- ISBN10: 080907821X
- Language: English
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Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America
$35.00 Read more“Our personal rights, comprehending those of life, liberty, and estate is every subject’s birthright, whether born in Great Britain or in the colonies” wrote Rhode Island lawyer and politician Martin … [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Abby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 159416410X
- Language: English
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The Colonists Revolt: An Interactive American Revolution Adventure
$9.99 Read moreVivid storytelling and authentic dialogue bring American history to life and place readers in the shoes of real people who experienced some of the most pivotal moments leading up to the American Revol… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Founding the United States
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1543515495
- Language: English
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party a… [more below]
- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172463
- Language: English
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
This lively book reveals the cl- Author: Davidson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0300218729
- Language: English
