Colonial Period (1600-1775)
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
$41.99 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
-
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
-
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
$22.00 Add to cartAhead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
In March 1621, w- Author: Silverman, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 163286925X
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
$20.99 Add to cartBeginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers–mainly young women–suffered from unseen to… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190627808
- Language: English
-
The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
$26.95 Add to cartPresenting the events of Salem’s witch hysteria in 1692 and 1693 in a chronological format, this authorative book makes use of previously unknown court records and documents.
- Author: Roach, Marilynne K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 22, 2004
- ISBN10: 1589791320
- Language: English
-
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
$18.99 Read moreNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South B… [more below]
- Author: Sublette, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1556529589
- Language: English
