Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Writer’s Guide To Everyday Life In Colonial America Pod Edition
$19.99 Add to cartReaders will understand all the events- from the seemingly inconsequential to the major- that framed Colonial American life. Includes sections on family life, fashion, earning a living, what colonists… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1582971773
- Language: English
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An Infinite Fountain of Light: Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century
$27.99 Add to cartChristians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Ligh
- Author: Marsden, George M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1514006626
- Language: English
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King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict
$19.99 Add to cartAt once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip’s War expands our understanding of American history a… [more below]
- Author: Schultz, Eric B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1581574894
- Language: English
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A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse
$29.95 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1594164142
- Language: English
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
$16.99 Add to cartA resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times’ infamous “1619 Project,” labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513065
- Language: English
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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
$17.95 Add to cart“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” ―Thomas Britten, The Histo
- Author: Marsh, Dawn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 080327520X
- Language: English
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
$27.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States
In the vaunted annals of America- Author: Peterson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209170
- Language: English
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
$19.95 Read moreFintan O’Toole, columnist and drama critic for the Irish Times, is the author of many other books, including A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His work frequently appears in Ame… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1438427581
- Language: English
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
$20.00 Add to cartTobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when European… [more below]
- Author: Gately, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139604
- Language: English
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
$35.00 Add to cartFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0151015155
- Language: English
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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241414
- Language: English
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
$18.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventee
- Author: Warren, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493248
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America’s Declaration of Independence,
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 570
- Publish Date: March 25 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432086
- Language: English
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On Witchcraft
$16.95 Add to cartThe famous 18th-century minister of Boston’s Old North Church provides readers with guidelines for discovering witches, explains how good Christians are tempted, and describes how to resist such tempt… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science
- Author: Mather, Cotton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0486444139
- Language: English
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The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hu… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0230623875
- Language: English
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
$22.00 Add to cartA multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Unite- Series: Penguin History of the United States
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002100
- Language: English
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Borneman, Walter R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0060761857
- Language: English
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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
$19.98 Add to cartIn this superb volume in Oxford’s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of une… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195331273
- Language: English
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An “Uncertaine Rumor” of Land: New Thoughts on the English Founding of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$15.00 Add to cartThe years 1620 and 1621 saw three small camps – a former Virginia Company salter and his “Jamestown bride;” a recently arrived captain with hired tenants from the crush at Kicotan; ten tenants for the
- Author: Hall, Jenean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0983266018
- Language: English
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
$18.99 Add to cart“An absorbing, perceptive biography…Deftly crafted history illuminates the nation’s earliest days.” —Kirkus Reviews
Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea- Author: Mack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605987
- Language: English
