Chronological Period/18th Century
-
The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
$18.00 Add to cart“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
In his first work of narrative nonf
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062937804
- Language: English
-
The Story of America: Essays on Origins
$20.95 Add to cartFrom celebrated writer Jill Lepore, a literary and political history of American origin stories
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates America- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0691159599
- Language: English
-
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
$27.99 Add to cartThe story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in t… [more below]
- Author: Hibbert, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393322939
- Language: English
-
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America’s fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 030681918X
- Language: English
-
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story–from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of t… [more below]
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019005669X
- Language: English
-
Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy
$21.95 Read moreThe history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in … [more below]
- Author: Finley, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682478327
- Language: English
-
Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne’s Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily … [more below]
- Author: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2018
- ISBN10: 146964052X
- Language: English
-
Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans
$18.00 Read moreProclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land demonstrates that Christianity is responsible for advancing liberty and equality for all Americans.
Scholars and popular authors regularly claim that Christian- Author: Hall, Mark David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587236
- Language: English
-
The Women of Colonial Latin America
$48.17 Add to cartIn this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book – incorporating new topics and illustrative cases… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: Socolow, Susan Migden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0521148820
- Language: English
-
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
-
From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition…..
$28.99 Add to cartIn this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from … [more below]
- Author: Maier, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308251
- Language: English
-
The Federalist Papers
$17.00 Add to cartWritten at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Co… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444955
- Language: English
-
Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
$18.95 Add to cartThis national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco–sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s … [more below]
- Author: Neely, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 164009444X
- Language: English
-
Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
-
Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartJos駱hine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; T駻騷ia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette R馗amier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarcer
- Author: Higonnet, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867951
- Language: English
-
The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so r… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Madison, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975170
- Language: English
-
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
$27.00 Read moreThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as “the mo
- Author: Bailyn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975650
- Language: English
-
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Read moreA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
-
The Federalist & The Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Collection: Including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Import
$20.40 Add to cartThis collection contains the crucial decisions and arguments of the Founding Fathers which shaped the America we know today. Along with the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the various Amendments this… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8027331803
- Language: English
-
The Story of Science: Newton at the Center: Newton at the Center
$33.95 Add to cartIn volume two, students will watch as Copernicus’s systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe–to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements … [more below]
- Series: Story of Science #2
- Author: Hakim, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1588341615
- Language: English
