Chronological Period/18th Century
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The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
$22.95 Add to cartTwo days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. … [more below]
- Series: Seafaring America
- Author: Farinelli, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1611687055
- Language: English
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Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
$16.95 Add to cartA biographical study of Patrick Henry, whose “”Give me liberty of give me death”” speech in 1775 at the second Virginia Convention has inspired since than all who treasure freedom. This book goes beyo… [more below]
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Vaughan, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1581823231
- 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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The Original 13: A Documentary History of Religion in America’s First Thirteen States
$25.00 Add to cart“The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their justice and the State Constitutions,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Joseph… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0977808521
- Language: English
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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
$30.00 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807550
- 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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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$58.33 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691167125
- Language: English
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the po
- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0547336047
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
$40.99 Add to cartThe Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay’s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes’ program and their vi… [more below]
- Series: Enlightenment an Interpretation
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393313662
- 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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Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong
$17.00 Add to cartThis major cultural and historical event features ancient Vietnames script and translations by premier American poet.
- Author: Huong, Hô Xuân
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556591489
- 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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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
$18.95 Read moreThe astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Short- Author: Ward, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0861545184
- 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
