Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993
In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0805030077
- Language: English
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea
$24.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE – “A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”–New York Times bestselling author Laurence Berg… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0451416112
- Language: English
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
$22.99 Read moreLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0190625368
- Language: English
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State of Revolution: My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey Through Revolutionary War New Jersey
$14.99 Add to cartPart Memoir. Part History. Part Travelogue.
Part Love Letter to the State of New Jersey.
On a late summer day in 2009, Al Frazza began a journey of exploration. His goal – to visit, research, and photo
- Author: Frazza, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 24 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985560411
- 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- Series: Mint Editions (Historical Documents and Treaties)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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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teen
- Author: Vowell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0399573100
- Language: English
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1787: The Grand Convention
$29.99 Add to cartIn this masterly account of the Philadelphia summer when our Constitution was born, Clinton Rossiter establishes his claim that the year 1787 is preeminent in American history. Bringing to life the se… [more below]
- Author: Rossiter, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393304043
- Language: English
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
$16.99 Add to cartAmerica, how well do you know your history?
- Who quelled a coup d’etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses?
- Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor?
- Which first lady refused t
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1595551115
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence
$19.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence–for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves…. [Her] lively book reclaims a
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075327
- Language: English
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East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785
$25.95 Add to cartIn 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. Today, the history of East Florida is seldom s
- Author: Kotlik, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588385027
- Language: English
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
$20.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0743264673
- Language: English
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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartBarbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Sa… [more below]- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 1989
- ISBN10: 0345336674
- Language: English
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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
$21.99 Add to cartIn this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny — both British and American. Remembere… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820463
- Language: English
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George Washington: The Founding Father
$17.99 Add to cartBy far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and pr
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060753676
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father
$18.99 Add to cartA debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, In Pursuit of Jefferson is the story of an American on a journey through Europe, following the
- Author: Baxter, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259401
- Language: English
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Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
$34.99 Add to cartA new understanding of how the West came to be
For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these hist- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 019762278X
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts
$34.99 Add to cartOn October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection… [more below]
- Author: Dunkerly, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 20 2007
- ISBN10: 1540204553
- Language: English
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Abigail Adams: A Life
$22.99 Add to cartIn this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time in a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story a
- Author: Holton, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546812
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Expense Account: Gen. George Washington and Marvin Kitman, Pfc. (Ret.)
$17.00 Add to cartIn George Washington’s Expense Account — the best-selling expense account in history — Kitman shows how Washington brilliantly turned his noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as comman… [more below]
- Author: Kitman, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0802137733
- Language: English
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as “the Founding Fathers”–who… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190273518
- Language: English
