Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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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
$36.99 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
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Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement
$32.99 Add to cartAround the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American forces under Nathanael Greene engaged Lord Cornwallis’s… [more below]
- Author: Maass, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1540242382
- Language: English
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union
$30.00 Read moreFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a “powerful revisionist account”of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).
The n- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316510602
- Language: English
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartA vibrant look at the American Revolution’s first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.
When we reflect on our nation’s history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foreg- Author: Borneman, Walter R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 14, 2015
- ISBN10: 031622099X
- Language: English
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American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
$9.00 Add to cartThe American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and … [more below]
- Author: McIlwain, Charles Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 8027342422
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
$26.95 Add to cartThe first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
“An elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native la- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0300255365
- Language: English
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Founding Fathers: A Captivating Guide to Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, Al
$43.99 Add to cartExplore the Captivating Lives of the Founding Fathers
Eight captivating manuscripts in one book:
– Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an American Polymath and a Founding Father of the United Sta
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 730
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480132
- Language: English
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Boston’s Freedom Trail: Trace The Path Of American History
$9.95 Add to cartRelive the birth of our nation along Boston’s historic Freedom Trail with this guide to over twenty-five legendary landmarks. This new edition is fully updated to include the most current information … [more below]
- Series: Boston’s Freedom Trail
- Author: Pietrzyk, Cindi D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 762772980
- Language: English
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The Enemy Harassed: Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777
$24.00 Add to cartAs few books regarding American history have achieved, Jim Stempel’s The Enemy Harassed brings a previously neglected period of the American Revolution to life.
In late December 1776, the American War- Author: Stempel, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637586159
- Language: English
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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
$22.99 Add to cartMark Puls delivers a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general who played a key role in all of George Washington’s battles.
During the Siege of Boston, Henry Knox’s amazing 300 mile transpo- Author: Puls, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0230623883
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
