Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
$45.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a min- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0316200603
- Language: English
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
$25.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story–from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of t… [more below]
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019005669X
- Language: English
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New Bern History 101
$17.95 Add to cart“Entertaining, funny, highly readable” The Essential Facts for the Native, Newcomer or Visitor to the Colonial Capital of North Carolina. Here’s what you’ll discover in New Bern History 101:
-Why New- Author: Ellis, Edward Barnes, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0975870092
- Language: English
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
$21.99 Add to cartThe American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354768
- Language: English
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From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition…..
$28.99 Add to cartIn this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from … [more below]
- Author: Maier, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308251
- Language: English
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
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The Pilgrims: A Captivating Guide to the Passengers on Board the Mayflower Who Founded the Plymouth Colony and Their Relationship wi
$25.99 Add to cartDid you know that Plymouth was named by the explorer John Smith in 1608?
Twelve years later, in 1620, the Pilgrims started their journey from Plymouth, England, and were blown off course, landing in Pl
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1637164009
- Language: English
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Female Husbands: A Trans History
$56.65 Add to cartLong before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands – people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married… [more below]
- Author: Manion, Jen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1108483801
- Language: English
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Red, White, & Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
$27.95 Add to cartLike cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But
- Author: Feeser, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345539
- Language: English
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for cent- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535116
- Language: English
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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamental… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0199766231
- Language: English
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The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
$18.95 Add to cartFilled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States–and the entire Western Hemisphere.
In the early 18th cen- Author: Gaudi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362967
- Language: English
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The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony
$19.95 Add to cartWhat if the 1587 Lost Colony of Roanoke was not lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island, North Carolina and found their way to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series… [more below]
- Author: La Vere, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0983523606
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the Pilgrims and the Founding of Plymouth Colony
$21.99 Add to cartStart conversations this Thanksgiving with The Pilgrim Chronicles, now in paperback!
All Americans are familiar with the story of the Pilgrims–persecuted for their religion in the Old World, they cro- Author: Gragg, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514894
- Language: English
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Catharine, Queen of the Tumbling Waters
$20.95 Add to cart“I’m not like your white women who lose their tongues and wits in a house full of men.”
So says Catharine Montour to her white captive during the Indian depredations of the 1750s. Catharine Montour, a
- Author: Neale, Cynthia G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1960373021
- Language: English
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Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740
$21.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, Black Majority marked a breakthrough in our understanding of early American history. Today, Wood’s insightful study remains more relevant and enlightening than ever. This land
- Author: Wood, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066202
- Language: English
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Masters of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartA radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the vital role played by the native peoples of the Gre- Author: McDonnell, Michael a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0809068001
- Language: English
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The Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era
$29.95 Add to cartThe British colony of West Florida-which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, a
- Author: Bunn, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1588384136
- Language: English
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The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
$19.95 Add to cartThe True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the firs… [more below]
- Author: Custalow, Linwood Little Bear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1555916325
- Language: English
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The Salem Witch Hunt: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Salem Witch Hunt, then keep reading…
Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodie
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480019
- Language: English
