Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
$20.00 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! What really happened at the notorious Salem witch trials.
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable recor- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250358418
- Language: English
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Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield
$18.99 Add to cartMen of their time?
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals–and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whit
- Author: McGever, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1514004151
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
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The Treacherous World of the 16th Century & How the Pilgrims Escaped It: The Prequel to America’s Freedom
$25.00 Add to cartDiscover the facts you’ve been missing from the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving story
Did freedom of religion & conscience exist in 16th century Europe?
How did kings of Spain, France & England, & Turkish Sul- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0989649148
- Language: English
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Of Plymouth Plantation
$14.95 Add to cartThe most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 1647. It vividly documents the Pilgrims’ adventures:… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Bradford, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0486452603
- Language: English
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
$40.00 Add to cartIn this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of f… [more below]
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1982145099
- Language: English
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The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
$18.99 Add to cartThe dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and m… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0743255178
- Language: English
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Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
$32.50 Add to cartRobert Rogers, commander of Rogers’ Rangers during the French and Indian War, was the war’s best-known colonial military hero and, in the ensuing peace, one of the best-known Americans of any descript… [more below]
- Author: Klotz, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164290
- Language: English
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Revolution by Fire: New York’s Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel
$18.95 Add to cartBased on the little known real life “Slave Insurrection” of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial s… [more below]
- Author: Lester, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012556
- Language: English
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Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
$21.99 Add to cartOn July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Preston, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658517
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Farewell Address
$12.95 Add to cartOn September 17,1796, George Washington announced that he would leave the presidency. His famous farewell address encapsulates a view of the Union, the Constitution, and good citizenship that is an im… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Washington, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 27 1999
- ISBN10: 1557094543
- Language: English
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
$18.95 Add to cartAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What b… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340023
- Language: English
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
$18.99 Add to cartConfessing to “familiarity with the devils,” Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her ne
- Author: Karlsen, Carol F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317595
- Language: English
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Common Sense (Deluxe, Hardbound Edition)
$9.99 Read moreThis keepsake edition presents Thomas Paine’s persuasive and impassioned case for America’s independence from Great Britain.
- Published in 1776 and destined to become an important piece of historic lite
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1441344136
- Language: English
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
$15.95 Read moreRecent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic c
- Series: Discovering America
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757530
- Language: English
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In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
$21.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were l- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0375706909
- Language: English
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
$29.95 Read moreIn 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495879
- 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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A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse
$49.95 Read moreIn the winter of 1692 something terrible and frightening began in Salem Village. It started with several villagers having strange fits, screaming, and unnaturally contorting themselves, and ended with… [more below]
- Author: Gagnon, Daniel A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1594163677
- Language: English
