United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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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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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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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
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American histor… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501108166
- Language: English
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Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
$13.95 Add to cartThey left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdo
- Author: Hoefling, Larry J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 12, 2009
- ISBN10: 0982231326
- Language: English
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Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
$42.99 Add to cartThis fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have… [more below]
- Series: America: A Cultural History #VOLU
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: March 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0195069056
- Language: English
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Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
$19.00 Add to cart“Vivid and remarkably fresh…Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages.”–The New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143111973
- Language: English
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Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
$21.99 Add to cartBeginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers–mainly young women–suffered from unseen to… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190627808
- Language: English
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
$26.95 Add to cartPresenting the events of Salem’s witch hysteria in 1692 and 1693 in a chronological format, this authorative book makes use of previously unknown court records and documents.
- Author: Roach, Marilynne K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 22, 2004
- ISBN10: 1589791320
- Language: English
