Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
$50.00 Add to cartThis book represents the first comprehensive record of all legal documents pertaining to the Salem witch trials, in chronological order. Numerous newly discovered manuscripts, as well as records publi… [more below]
- Author: Rosenthal, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1012
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1107689619
- Language: English
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La Florida: Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories
$34.95 Add to cartLa Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove Ameri
- Author: Kokomoor, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1683343522
- Language: English
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
$30.00 Add to cartIn this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years’ War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed,… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0375706364
- Language: English
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$18.00 Add to cart*National Bestseller*
A sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths–about race, gender, and immigration–exposed by the stor… [more below]- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974605
- Language: English
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Another Day: More Stories from the Early Colonial Records of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$21.99 Add to cart“Error in history is like a flock of sheep jumping over a bridge; if one goes, the rest all follow.”
(Charles Campbell, cited by Jennings Cropper Wise in Ye Kingdom of Accawmacke)
In Another Day, Jenean
- Author: Hall, Jenean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0983266034
- Language: English
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Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
$28.99 Add to cartIn July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez and Silvestre V lez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new Spanish missions in California, across the huge expans
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358453
- Language: English
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Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
$29.95 Read moreAs Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-dat
- Author: Bagley, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 1684580390
- Language: English
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
$35.00 Add to cartThe secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the Fr
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600584
- Language: English
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Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775
$24.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1966, R. J. Dickson’s Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million p… [more below]
- Author: Dickson, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0901905178
- Language: English
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly dim… [more below]
- Author: Horn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024904
- Language: English
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
$26.00 Add to cartThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ba
- Author: Powell, Lawrence N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725905
- Language: English
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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
$18.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly framed . . . fascinating . . . a well-told story of discovery, conquest, business, and politics.” — Kirkus Reviews
Four centuries ago, and 14 years before the Mayflower, a group of men–l
- Author: Woolley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 006009057X
- Language: English
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
$19.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when l… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496220
- Language: English
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Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War
$24.99 Add to cartThis classic account of King Philip’s War, first published in 1958, offers a bird’s-eye view of the conflict, from the Wampanoag sachem’s rise to his ultimate defeat. The battles, massacres, stratagem
- Author: Leach, Douglas Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0881508853
- Language: English
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize: A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America
“By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed–M- Series: The Henry Roe Cloud American Indians and Modernity
- Author: Brooks, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0300244320
- Language: English
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
$19.99 Add to cartThis acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old “witch” chained to a dank … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 30, 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811596
- Language: English
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
$19.00 Add to cartThe book that launched environmental history, William Cronon’s Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, Willia- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0809016346
- Language: English
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate th- Author: Roach, Marilynne K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821206
- Language: English
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American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native Ameri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Boyer, Paul S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 019538914X
- Language: English
