Chronological Period/18th Century
-
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
$19.99 Read more“A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review)
“Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A School Library Journal Bes… [more below]- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 153441617X
- Language: English
-
Cinderella
$16.99 Add to cartThis brilliant edition of a timeless story is sure to become the favorite of a generation. Readers young and old will be enchanted by the vision and mastery of Kinuko Y. Craft’s luminous paintings, in… [more below]
- Author: Craft, K. Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1587170043
- Language: English
-
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
$30.00 Read moreIn one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and cl
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498983
- Language: English
-
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
-
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
-
Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider
$8.99 Read moreMeet the brave girl whose midnight ride, like Paul Revere’s, made her a hero of the American Revolution, in this middle grade historical fiction novel, part of the Based on a True Story series.
What w- Series: Based on a True Story
- Author: Abbott, E. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250104122
- Language: English
-
Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
$23.00 Read moreA revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life
“Kidd’s biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson’s religious and moral life available, and certa- Author: Kidd, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300271050
- Language: English
-
A Tale of Two Cities
$12.99 Read moreExplore Dickens’ classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities.
Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in the years leading up to and durin- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0785839836
- Language: English
-
Constitution of the United States
$9.95 Add to cartThe landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on S… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Founding Fathers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1429095334
- Language: English
-
The Eight
$8.99 Read moreWhen two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scat… [more below]
- Author: Neville, Katherine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0345366239
- Language: English
-
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons
$9.00 Read moreA sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards to his Enfield, Connecticut, congregation in July 1741, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is particularly noted for its vivid descriptions of the torments of… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Edwards, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0486446018
- Language: English
-
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$18.95 Read moreFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today’s most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its mean… [more below]
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781218
- Language: English
-
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
$17.95 Read moreHailed by critics and embraced by readers, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas Jefferson in a generation. Following her Pulitzer Prize-winning
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492519
- Language: English
-
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
$17.95 Read morePulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhatta- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 1400032261
- Language: English
-
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
$13.99 Read moreAnderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the sequel. — The New York Times Book Review
Young Octav- Series: Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #1
- Author: Anderson, M. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0763636797
- Language: English
-
Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
-
A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
$24.95 Read moreCompleting Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells
- Author: Wells, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1350365505
- Language: English
-
Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$5.00 Read more“America’s first power couple,” John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters — from their 1762 courtship to the end of John… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Adams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486841707
- Language: English
-
Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805
$15.95 Read moreFor his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young Noah Blake’s parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which he recorded the various activities on his father’s farm. This reprint of an actual early ni… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486436667
- Language: English
-
The Last of the Mohicans
$6.95 Read moreJames Fenimore Cooper’s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War.
The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world’s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birt… [more below]- Series: Leatherstocking Tales
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0451417860
- Language: English
