Chronological Period/18th Century
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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
$24.95 Read more“A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis…Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration–good statesmanship is needed more than ever.”
–Bren- Author: Siemann, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292189
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
$12.95 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of Franklin’s autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan
“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”–J. H. Plumb, New- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0300098588
- Language: English
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Kaya: The Journey Begins
$7.99 Read moreKaya knows in her heart that her beautiful Appaloosa mare, Steps High, is the fastest horse in the herd. But when boasting leads to a daring bareback race, Kaya pushes Steps High too hard. She puts he… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Shaw, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371348
- Language: English
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The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
$32.00 Read moreNow an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United S
- Author: Wehrman, Andrew M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1421444666
- Language: English
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Rediscovering the American Covenant: Roadmap to Restore America
$29.95 Read moreAmerica is in decline. What is the cause, and what must be done to re-establish our founding principles?
Nothing in print today clearly answers these questions from a biblical standpoint. Until now. … [more below]- Author: Burrell, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1955026149
- Language: English
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
$23.00 Read moreA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
“Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness, ‘ that ‘joyful eagerness’ fo- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271026
- Language: English
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The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
$18.00 Read moreNow in paperback! In this gripping narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the intricately crafted tale of three of our nation’s most fascinating founding fathers–Alexan… [more below]
- Author: Groom, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 142622320X
- Language: English
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
$18.95 Read more“I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (pr teritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it – and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and r
- Series: Farnsworth’s Classical English #1
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1567925529
- Language: English
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Chains
$19.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling first novel in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both … [more below]
- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2008
- ISBN10: 1416905855
- Language: English
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The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence
$12.99 Add to cartIt’s more important than ever for every American to know exactly what the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence actually says. Here is the essential, 45-page, pocket-si… [more below]
- Author: Delegates of
- Binding:
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1631586874
- Language: English
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Religious Affections
$19.00 Read moreJonathan Edwards is best known as the theologian of revival. In this, his major study on the theme, he analyses the nature of a genuine work of the Holy Spirit.
- Author: Edwards, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: October 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0851514855
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
$23.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. – “… [more below]
- Author: Wulf, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307390683
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgement
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552460
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat
$23.99 Read more‘An inspired and original tale … Jeoffry is the greatest cat in the English language’ Hilary Mantel‘Simply unforgettable … one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times’ Alexander M… [more below]
- Author: Soden, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750999314
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
$32.00 Read moreIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary- Author: Thompson, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1455565156
- Language: English
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Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
$5.99 Read moreA funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the magic square. A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of… [more below]
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Murphy, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0375806210
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
