Chronological Period/18th Century
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Constitution of the United States
$9.95 Add to cartThe landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on S… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Founding Fathers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1429095334
- Language: English
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The Eight
$8.99 Read moreWhen two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scat… [more below]
- Author: Neville, Katherine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0345366239
- Language: English
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons
$9.00 Read moreA sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards to his Enfield, Connecticut, congregation in July 1741, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is particularly noted for its vivid descriptions of the torments of… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Edwards, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0486446018
- Language: English
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$22.00 Read moreFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today’s most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its mean… [more below]
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781218
- Language: English
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Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
$17.95 Read moreHailed by critics and embraced by readers, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas Jefferson in a generation. Following her Pulitzer Prize-winning
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492519
- Language: English
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
$17.95 Read morePulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhatta- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 1400032261
- Language: English
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
$13.99 Add to cartAnderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the sequel. — The New York Times Book Review
Young Octav- Series: Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #1
- Author: Anderson, M. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0763636797
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
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A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
$24.95 Read moreCompleting Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells
- Author: Wells, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1350365505
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$5.00 Read more“America’s first power couple,” John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters — from their 1762 courtship to the end of John… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Adams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486841707
- Language: English
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Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805
$15.95 Read moreFor his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young Noah Blake’s parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which he recorded the various activities on his father’s farm. This reprint of an actual early ni… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486436667
- Language: English
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The Last of the Mohicans
$6.95 Read moreJames Fenimore Cooper’s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War.
The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world’s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birt… [more below]- Series: Leatherstocking Tales
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0451417860
- Language: English
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Wesley and Men Who Followed
$28.00 Read moreJohn Wesley – Oxford don and itinerant preacher, intellectual and evangelist, author and man of action, upholder of the Church of England yet founder of another world-wide denomination, disagreeing wi… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Iain H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0851518354
- Language: English
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The 56: Liberty Lessons from Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence
$26.00 Read moreRead why the historical account of the 56 Signers of The Declaration of Independence and the story behind the 4th of July are so critically important…before they and the 4th of July are banned from … [more below]
- Author: MacKinnon, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1637584245
- Language: English
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
$19.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discour… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0679776141
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers, the Ideas That Forged the American Constitution: Deluxe Slipcase Edition
$19.95 Read moreThis luxury, silkbound treasury brings together a selection of the most influential essays from The Federalists Papers, presented in a handsome slip-case with silver foil stamping.
The Federalist wa- Series: Arcturus Silkbound Classics
- Author: Madison, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1785991426
- Language: English
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
$10.00 Read moreBetween the first proposals of a federal Constitution in 1787 and the document’s 1789 ratification, an intense debate raged among the nation’s founding fathers. The Federalist Papers — authored by Ja… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Henry, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486843459
- Language: English
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Selia: Countess of Huntingdon: Her Pivotal Role in the 18th Century Evangelical Awakening
$30.00 Read moreA major new biography of the ‘mother in Israel’ so greatly admired by King George III, George Whitefield and all the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, rescuing the Countess from undeserved obscurity… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Faith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0851518125
- Language: English
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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dandelion, Pink
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199206791
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
