Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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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
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The Mayflower: A Captivating Guide to a Cultural Icon in the History of the United States of America and the Pilgrims’ Journey from E
$25.99 Add to cartDid you know that not every passenger aboard the Mayflower was a Pilgrim?
In fact, of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, only about 40 were fleeing England for religious reasons. And if you want to l
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637163967
- Language: English
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My Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartMy Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond is a collection of complex life stories that interweave and meander through the ever-changing world of eightee
- Author: Prather, Michelle Freret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1737592681
- Language: English
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The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out of print. It contains a separate chapter about Black… [more below]
- Author: Rankin, Hugh F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: January 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0865263310
- Language: English
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Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies During the War of Jenkins’ Ear
$29.95 Add to cart2023 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writers Society of America
Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military hi- Author: Chapman, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124314
- Language: English
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The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights
$4.99 Add to cartThe United States Constitution and Bill of Rights (1787-1789) is a foundational document of American democracy. Written by delegates attending the Constitutional Convention, a gathering intended to re
- Series: Mint Editions (Historical Documents and Treaties)
- Author: Editions, Mint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513279629
- Language: English
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The Most Perfect Justice: Alexander McGillivray and George Washington Strive to Save the Creek Nation
$10.50 Add to cartAlexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation’s first president in 1789.
Both men faced uncerta
- Author: Bouler, Jean Lufkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1733449701
- Language: English
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Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
$30.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, Massacre on the Merrimack is a riveting true story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of America’s pre-colonial past. It’s the incredible tale … [more below]
- Author: Atkinson, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1493029983
- Language: English
