Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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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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Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Journey Into the Power and Persecution of the Witch
$16.95 Read more“An expansive, transformative, and empowering book [that] shares the history of the witch, her magick, and persecution with reverence and respect . . . You will come to understand the witch and her wo… [more below]
- Author: Sollee, Kristen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 157863816X
- Language: English
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Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America
$6.95 Read moreThe great importance and usefulness of herbs among settlers in the American colonies are made abundantly clear in this charming volume. Compiled by members of the National Society of the Colonial Dame… [more below]
- Author: Colonial Dames of America
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0486285294
- Language: English
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
$18.00 Add to cart“‘The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America, ‘ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”–Wall Street Journal
A master- Author: Gallagher, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130064
- Language: English
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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
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The Road to Ticonderoga: The Campaign of 1758 in the Champlain Valley
$34.95 Read moreThe British campaign to capture Fort Carillon on the Ticonderoga Peninsula in 1758 resulted in the largest battle of the French and Indian War. Crafted by Prime Minister William Pitt, the scope and sc… [more below]
- Author: Laramie, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 159416407X
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Read moreIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
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The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
$20.00 Add to cartBANCROFF PRIZE WINNER – King Philip’s War, the excruciating racial war–colonists against Indigenous peoples–that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in Am… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702628
- Language: English
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
$24.95 Read moreOften viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machi… [more below]
- Author: Walczynski, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0252087356
- Language: English
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Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution: Revised and Expanded Edition
$18.99 Add to cart“From Marbury v. Madison to Roe v. Wade. . . each essay provides a concise, lively, clearly explained account of the actual people and events involved in the litigation and a cogent summary of the thi
- Author: Garraty, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0061320846
- Language: English
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
$18.00 Read moreA gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology.
“The best and most enjoyab- Author: Gaskill, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593467108
- Language: English
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Squanto: A Native Odyssey
$28.00 Add to cartTaken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history
American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiv- Author: Lipman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300238770
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition
$24.95 Add to cartPrinter and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age o
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0812219295
- Language: English
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Unfaltering Trust: How Pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. and His Descendants Helped Build America
$23.99 Add to cartWhen he left England in 1630 in search of religious freedom and opportunity during the Great Migration to the New World, pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. could never have imagined the vast impact his
- Author: Ziegler, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1532086199
- Language: English
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General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
$24.95 Add to cartThe classic account of the lives & exploits of the most notorious pirates of the Golden Age-from Anne Bonny to Blackbeard
- Author: Captain Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 1599219050
- Language: English
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Patrick Henry
$32.99 Add to cart“A brilliant orator, a firebrand for freedom and individual rights, Henry stands as an American luminary, and Kukla’s magisterial biography shines the glow of achievement on subject and author alike” … [more below]
- Author: Kukla, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1439190828
- Language: English
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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
$16.00 Add to cartSixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the Engli… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, David Beers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261954
- Language: English
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The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist Edition
$38.95 Add to cartFor years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper’s naturalist’s edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram’s pioneering survey. Complete
- Author: Bartram, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820320277
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Barbados Diary, 1751-52
$37.95 Add to cartIn the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados–the one and only time that the future Re
- Author: Washington, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0813941377
- Language: English
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
$29.99 Add to cartJames Merrell’s brilliant book is an account of the “go-betweens,” the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a refl
- Author: Merrell, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319768
- Language: English
