United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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The Most Perfect Justice: Alexander McGillivray and George Washington Strive to Save the Creek Nation
$10.50 Add to cartAlexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation’s first president in 1789.
Both men faced uncerta
- Author: Bouler, Jean Lufkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1733449701
- Language: English
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The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen
$15.95 Add to cartTo know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, b… [more below]
- Author: Laycock, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1493018825
- 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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The Salem Witch Hunt: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
$15.97 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1950922677
- Language: English
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The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the New World
$34.95 Read moreA Common Man’s Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America
In the winter of 1650-51, one hundred fifty ragged and hungry Scottish prisoners of war arrive… [more below]- Author: Gardner, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 20 2018
- ISBN10: 159416312X
- Language: English
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing s- Author: Fraser, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250108578
- Language: English
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Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
$49.95 Add to cartIf one man could be said to exemplify in his character the promise of America’s greatness, that man was Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania frontiersman of the Colonial period. This biography of one of the ke
- Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065339
- Language: English
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The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814
$32.00 Add to cartThis book explores the evolution of Americans’ first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans’ employed and, … [more below]
- Author: Grenier, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0521732638
- Language: English
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
$28.99 Add to cartRelying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, G
- Author: Silver, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334902
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to Charleston
$43.99 Add to cartFounded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Downey, Christopher Byrd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252027
- Language: English
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John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father’s Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
$18.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
*NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
“An expert, extremely detailed acco… [more below]
- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1335996192
- Language: English
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U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More!
$16.99 Add to cartPerfect for readers of all ages, U.S. History 101 is a fact-filled and riveting introduction to the most important political events and figures from the last 300 years of our nation’s history.
The sto- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Sears, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1440586489
- Language: English
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Unfaltering Trust: How Pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. and His Descendants Helped Build America
$13.99 Add to cartWhen he left England in 1630 in search of religious freedom and opportunity during the Great Migration to the New World, pilgrim Edward Fitz Randolph Jr. could never have imagined the vast impact his
- Author: Ziegler, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1532086172
- Language: English
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The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England’s Maids for Virginia
$36.99 Add to cartJamestown, England’s first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger — from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates we… [more below]
- Author: Potter, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0190942630
- Language: English
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Democracy, Aristocracy, Theocracy and the Rule of Law in the New England Colonies, 1620-1686
$38.99 Add to cartDEMOCRACY, THEOCRACY, ARISTOCRACY, AND THE RULE OF LAW IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES, 1620-1686 explores the emergence of various governmental formations in early New England. Namely, pertinent data on … [more below]
- Author: Mboma, Lievin Kambamba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1737338424
- Language: English
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First Generations
$20.00 Add to cartCarol Berkin’s multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0809016060
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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
