General Books


John Adams Best Price: $10.30 In the field of historical writing there is this great chasm. There are the intellectual...	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Best Price: $6.25 In this well researched, superbly well written book, Nathaniel Philbrick who wrote the brilliant...	Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England Best Price: $13.50 William Cronon's book Changes in the Land illuminates the relationship and impact the European...	American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA) Best Price: $10.13 This book gives us the information we never received in middle school. The history of the...	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 I have read this book myself at least twice. This book was purchased as a graduation present for...



His Excellency: George Washington Best Price: $8.00 The modern "pyschological" biography attempts what is probably an impossibility: to...	Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Best Price: $7.99 I am a fan of narrative nonfiction history, so I was a bit offset when I started reading...	The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America Best Price: $5.95 John Demos is a pioneer among a newer school of social historians of the American past, focusing...	The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $11.15 Great book, got it just in time for my american heritage class. Will recommend to all my friends.	The Mayflower & the Pilgrims' New World Best Price: $13.59 In stunning prose, Nathaniel Philbrick evokes the drama of the voyage of the Mayflower and the...



A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Best Price: $8.39 Edward J. Larson's magnificent look at America's first disputed election manages to remain very...	Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Best Price: $17.55 What happened in the New World before the Europeans? What did the Indians think of the Europeans...	Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft Best Price: $10.00 I originally read this during my Salem phase back in high school. Back then I read simply...	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) Best Price: $20.51 Yawn. I just finished reading David Hackett Fischer's "Albion's Seed", and boy are my...	Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence Best Price: $12.98 This is a solid book. It's sure to please both the casual reader who picks up a history book...

Colonial Latin America Best Price: $41.86 The seller sold the book in the condition which described. It arrived in a timely manner and...	Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America Best Price: $12.97 The evolution of religious freedom in America has been of interest to me for years. Waldman's...	In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life Best Price: $7.85 I enjoyed Deetz' newly updated introduction to Historical Archaeology in America. He makes clear...	The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Best Price: $8.25 This last week my commute has been filled with fascinating stories of life on Manhattan in the...	Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History Best Price: $12.98 This is an excellent collection of documents, but then I am biased since I've been a student of...

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams Best Price: $17.75 It is a very good book, the reading is really good!!! I loved reading the letters between...	The Light and the Glory Best Price: $4.12 This volume of early American history is limited in its scope, covering a period of about 300...	The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $13.95 I have read a few books on the American Revolution, but they always leave me somewhat...	The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.89 "The disciplined armies always kept on foot on the continent of Europe, though they bear a...	Everyday Life in Early America Best Price: $7.33 Not only is Hawke's book informative and concise, this book is "a good read." Many...

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West Best Price: $15.77 Everyone knows the story of the Donner Party's coming West and getting stranded trying to climb...	The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $14.17 If you are student of Native American studies or just interested at all in the early contact of...	Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Best Price: $11.25 OK so I read this book for school and had to write about each chapter. After trying to get...	Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World Best Price: $11.69 If you are over 60 and did not self-educate on slavery,you need to read this book. Believe me,...	Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation Best Price: $8.85 After finishing Joseph Ellis' Washington and Jefferson books in the past week, I was in the mood...

The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $20.59 It is hard to think of a better subject than Thomas Jefferson for such a fine extended literary...	Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $11.58 This is a masterful account of one of the most trying times in the nascent American revolution...	Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia Best Price: $17.95 This incisive work illuminates Virginia's colonial history in personal detail: legal procedures,...	Lincoln at Peoria Best Price: $18.00 Explaining Lincoln's rise first to state and then national prominence has been a challenge for...	Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture) Best Price: $14.75 Woody Holton, in his book Forced Founders Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the...

Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787 Best Price: $4.88 Although the primary focus of this book is on the Constitutional Convention, and the brilliant...	The Wordy Shipmates Best Price: $17.13 From the New York Times ?bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy...	"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 Best Price: $20.00 I read this book for my college history class. It was a great look into a society that we know...	The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other Best Price: $14.45 The book comes earlier than the estimated time , and it's exactly what I see from the website....	The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square Best Price: $15.51 Sublette has done an amazing job pulling together political, cultural and social elements into a...

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca Best Price: $14.45 The author pieced records together to get a coherent story. Learned about Spain in its conquest...	The Faiths of the Founding Fathers Best Price: $11.67 This book, though flawed, is an interesting and charming survey of the religious atmosphere of...	Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present Best Price: $24.50 The past isn't what it used to be. That's one of the threads which runs throughout this...	African Perspectives on Colonialism (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) Best Price: $11.81 Boahen gives the reader a great account of Africa and the effects of colonialism. Instead of the...	American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World Best Price: $14.10 "In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue...and discovered America....

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay Best Price: $12.78 The issues with slavery in America reached all the way back to the birth of the nation. The...	The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence Best Price: $10.13 This book is an excellent look at the social and economic life of Colonial America and how each...	Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.79 This is an interesting novel, and a fascinating study of liberal attitudes on race, gender and...	Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress Best Price: $13.25 Wheelan has written an excellent book on the post-presidential career of John Quincy Adams. Some...	Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library) Best Price: $8.50 If you have an interest in the history of Africans in America, specially in South Carolina, this...

Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North Best Price: $11.09 Copperheads were those anti-war Democrats in the North who, throughout the war, were Lincoln's...	The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America (John MacRae Books) Best Price: $15.00 This is an interesting history of the settling of Jamestown that gives equal time to the ships...	New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment) Best Price: $11.81 I recently graduated with my B.A. in History and am about to start my M.A. in United States...

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See also for General Books

Colonial Period