Pivotal Moments in American History
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Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
$22.99 Add to cartOn July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Preston, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658517
- Language: English
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
$19.98 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed–four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0195173309
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$21.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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Washington’s Crossing
$24.99 Add to cartSix months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 019518159X
- Language: English
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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
$42.99 Add to cartWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award & Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize.
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two ye- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Weddle, Kevin J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0195331400
- Language: English
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The Battle of Midway
$23.99 Add to cartThere are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199315981
- Language: English
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
$22.99 Add to cartThis newest volume in Oxford’s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott We… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0199769184
- Language: English
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Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
$37.99 Add to cartFrom one of the country’s most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social m… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Freedman, Samuel G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0197535194
- Language: English
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Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
$21.99 Add to cartBeginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers–mainly young women–suffered from unseen to… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190627808
- Language: English
