Chronological Period/18th Century
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Indian Captive: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenski reconstructs the real-life story of Mary Jemison, who was captured in a raid as young girl and raised among the Seneca Indians.
Meticulously researched
- Author: Lenski, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0064461629
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartIt’s the late 1700s. Tensions are brewing between the American colonies and Great Britain. The Revolutionary War is about to begin. Will you: Help the network of patriot spies in your city? OR Fight f… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: History
- Author: Raum, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1515742644
- Language: English
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William Carey: Obliged to Go
$11.99 Add to cartWilliam Carey watched from the dock as the magnificent sailing ship headed for the English Channel without him. Tears filled his eyes, and deep disappointment filled his heart. What would he tell the … [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 213
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1576581470
- Language: English
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Liberty!: How the Revolutionary War Began
$8.99 Read moreHow the Revolutionary War Began
The American colonists were fed up with British law. They refused to buy English goods. They formed a militia of tradesmen and farmers ready to fight at a moment’s noti- Series: Landmark Books (Random House)
- Author: Penner, Lucille Recht
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 23 2002
- ISBN10: 0375822003
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women
$16.95 Add to cartMary Woolstonecroft is now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and her writings are a key voice in a feminist conversation that still continues today. Writing in a time when men wer
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1914317815
- Language: English
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Twas Seeding Time
$23.99 Add to cartJohn Ruth provides a lively account and some little known insights concerning Mennonite community life in America 200 years ago.
- Author: Ruth, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1513805584
- Language: English
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
$16.00 Add to cartOn the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain’s California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, n… [more below]
- Author: de la P?rouse, Jean Fran?ois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0930588398
- Language: English
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Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator
$19.95 Add to cartIn the first modern biography of Red jacket, Christopher Densmore sheds light on the achievements of this formidable Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and n
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Densmore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 081560548X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition
$24.95 Add to cartPrinter and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age o
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0812219295
- Language: English
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Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years
$25.99 Add to cartBlack Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of tod… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802827853
- Language: English
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
$21.99 Add to cartA brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the … [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0471327166
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Read moreA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Journal of the American Revolution 2022: Annual Volume
$40.00 Read moreThe year’s best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding eras
The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2022, presents the journal’s best hi- Author: Hagist, Don N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1594163855
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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Patrick Henry
$32.99 Add to cart“A brilliant orator, a firebrand for freedom and individual rights, Henry stands as an American luminary, and Kukla’s magisterial biography shines the glow of achievement on subject and author alike” … [more below]
- Author: Kukla, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1439190828
- Language: English
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
$24.99 Read moreWith a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.
The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1400206251
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist Edition
$38.95 Add to cartFor years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper’s naturalist’s edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram’s pioneering survey. Complete
- Author: Bartram, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820320277
- Language: English
