Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
$35.00 Add to cartThe secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the Fr
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600584
- Language: English
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Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775
$24.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1966, R. J. Dickson’s Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million p… [more below]
- Author: Dickson, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0901905178
- Language: English
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly dim… [more below]
- Author: Horn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024904
- Language: English
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
$26.00 Read moreThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ba
- Author: Powell, Lawrence N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725905
- Language: English
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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
$18.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly framed . . . fascinating . . . a well-told story of discovery, conquest, business, and politics.” — Kirkus Reviews
Four centuries ago, and 14 years before the Mayflower, a group of men–l
- Author: Woolley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 006009057X
- Language: English
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
$19.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when l… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496220
- Language: English
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Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War
$24.99 Add to cartThis classic account of King Philip’s War, first published in 1958, offers a bird’s-eye view of the conflict, from the Wampanoag sachem’s rise to his ultimate defeat. The battles, massacres, stratagem
- Author: Leach, Douglas Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0881508853
- Language: English
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize: A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America
“By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed–M- Series: The Henry Roe Cloud American Indians and Modernity
- Author: Brooks, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0300244320
- Language: English
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
$19.99 Add to cartThis acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old “witch” chained to a dank … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 30, 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811596
- Language: English
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
$19.00 Add to cartThe book that launched environmental history, William Cronon’s Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, Willia- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0809016346
- Language: English
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate th- Author: Roach, Marilynne K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821206
- Language: English
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American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native Ameri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Boyer, Paul S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 019538914X
- Language: English
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
$35.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.
In the three decades bef- Author: Holzer, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 451489012
- Language: English
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Frommer’s New England
$26.95 Add to cartFrommer’s comprehensive guide to New England fans across this quintessentially American region to show readers how to explore quaint villages, historic sites dating to the country’s earliest days, and… [more below]
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Brokaw, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 826
- Publish Date: 23-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1628875771
- Language: English
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American histor… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501108166
- Language: English
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
$22.00 Add to cartThere is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake
- Author: H?m?l?inen, Pekka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1324094060
- Language: English
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Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
$13.95 Add to cartThey left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdo
- Author: Hoefling, Larry J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 12, 2009
- ISBN10: 0982231326
- Language: English
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Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
$42.99 Add to cartThis fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have… [more below]
- Series: America: A Cultural History #VOLU
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: March 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0195069056
- Language: English
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Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
$19.00 Add to cart“Vivid and remarkably fresh…Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages.”–The New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143111973
- Language: English
