General Books


What Did the Declaration Declare? (Historians at Work) Best Price: $15.94 One great thing about this book is that the original draft by Thomas Jefferson is included. One...	An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Early American Studies) Best Price: $24.75 Have you ever wondered about the thirteen colonies decided to fight for to become an independent...	"Exterminate Them": Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Slavery of Native Americans During the California Gold Rush, 1848-1868 Best Price: $17.88 Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along...	Everyday Life in Colonial America Best Price: $11.81 Written mostly for writers I find this book so broad it is useless. There is very little about...	Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology Best Price: $14.85 At the entrance of Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky, one can reads that this is the place...



Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 (Indians of the Southeast) Best Price: $31.95 Epidemics and Enslavement is a groundbreaking examination of the relationship between the...	Brigades of Gettysburg: The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg Best Price: $31.50 My library contains a number of Gettysburg books but this is the one most used. In very clear...	Governor William Bradford's Letter Book Best Price: $4.13 Gathered during Plymouth Colony's crucial first decade, Bradford's Letter Book served as a...	Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron (American Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield)) Best Price: $20.94 I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the Civil War's Western Theater. The book...	Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour Best Price: $12.50 rHE AUTHOR WILLIAM C. DAVIS HAS WRITTEN MANY BOOKS ON THE CIVIL WAR AND THIS PERIOD OF OUR...



A New World: England's First View of America Best Price: $19.57 John White (c. 1540 - c. 1606), was an English artists who sailed with Richard Grenville in 1585...	The Colonial Experience 1607-1774 (A Basic History of the United States) This is the first book in Carson's series on American history. In general, Carson has produced a...	Plantation Mistress on the Eve on the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South) Best Price: $10.23	Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings Best Price: $23.05 I had to use this book for a history class of mine. The pictures inside were of great detail...	Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the DIlemma of Black Patriotism Best Price: $4.58 As of this day, Alicia Keys thinks that RAP music was created by whites so that blacks would...

Stono: Documenting And Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt Best Price: $11.21 Mark M. Smith has given us a splendid account of the 1739 Slave Revolt in the Charleston, South...	The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War Best Price: $7.79 This is a book that is ambitious--to provide in one volume a comprehensive picture of Civil War...	George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution Best Price: $4.99 I would recommend this book as the first to read when studying the war. Excellent portrayal of...	The Majesty of Colonial Williamsburg (Majesty Architecture Series) Best Price: $19.90 Being an annual visitor to Colonial Williamsburg I was very thoroughly pleased with the...	A History of the Book in America: Volume I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (History of the Book in America) Best Price: $28.59 Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of...

Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Pages from History) Best Price: $18.25 From Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a...	A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c. Best Price: $2.99 This is a remarkably fun book.. a must for Kentuckians! Manning seems to be channeling D Boon,...	Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings Best Price: $8.77 Jefferson's architectural drawings, edited and compiled by a noted architectural historian who...	The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785 Best Price: $4.78 And it all started because of the Stamp Act!. This book was a revelation to me since I knew just...	Putting "America" on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States Best Price: $6.95 AMERICA is a continent bearing a name only for 500 Years. It has been proposed such a name to...

Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts (Midland Book, Mb 422) Best Price: $10.00 This book concerns the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries. This book is likely a...	Seeds of Discontent: The Deep Roots of the American Revolution, 1650-1750 Best Price: $18.48 A narrative history of the largely unexplored events-starting almost a century before-that...	The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America Best Price: $25.32 "No study of acculturation in colonial America would be complete," writes James Axtell...	Abraham Lincoln: A Biography Best Price: $16.35 Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive...	Interpretations of American History, 6th ed, vol. 1: To 1877 (Interpretations of American History; Patterns and Perspectives) Best Price: $5.95 A in depth comprehensive study of themes written in American history. I bought this book as a...

Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic Best Price: $24.95 Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the felt reality of their...	The Presidential Game: The Origins of American Presidential Politics Best Price: $7.41 McCormick shines a light on the dustiest corner of the U.S. Constitution still in effect. It...	Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution (Military History of Texas Series, No. 3) Best Price: $20.00 Volume three in the Military History of Texas Series, Sacrificed At The Alamo: Tragedy And...	The American Civil War: 365 Days Best Price: $4.95 The book itself and particularly the illustrations, are incredible, but I found the factoids in...	Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm's victory against all odds (Campaign) Best Price: $8.14 Great book, after visiting Fort Ticonderoga, reading the book made the experience more...

Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $39.80 The United States is a nation of joiners. Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his...	Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America Best Price: $1.99 It is often thought that the Jamestown settlement was the beginning of English America, and in...	The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) Best Price: $15.00 Eighteenth-century Virginian gentry had established a society, complete with imported styles and...	Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 Best Price: $17.00 Dr. Shannon has exploded a series of myths in this landmark study. His research is impeccable,...	Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.40 This book is an excellent biography. It goes a little further into the creases and crefices of...

1898 : The Birth of the American Century Best Price: $13.95 David Traxel has taken the year 1898 as, to quote the subtitle, the birth of the American...	The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison (American Presidency Series) Best Price: $18.00 Not only is he one of America's lesser known presidents, Benjamin Harrison is not even the...	Clash Of Empires: The British, French, And Indian War, 1754-1763 Best Price: $5.98 The conflict that Winston Churchill called the first First World War profoundly shaped the...	A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den Bogaert (Iroquois and Their Neighbors) Best Price: $11.92	The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series) Best Price: $46.71 The Transformation Of The Southeastern Indians 1540-1760 edited by Robbie Ethridge (Assistant...

Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate Best Price: $2.00 This was an interesting book but I found the detail on the sloops and sea adventures dragging at...	The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 Best Price: $11.58 This account of the Highlanders and particularly of my ancestor, Alexander McAllister, and the...	Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762 Best Price: $17.95 If you are a genealogist and have ancestors in North Carolina in the mid 1700's, you have to own...	A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials Best Price: $1.99 As more scholarly reviewers have already pointed out, the author has done little more than...	Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 Best Price: $39.99 A thouroughly researched and well-documented narrative comes alive thanks to the numerous...

Colonialism (Short Histories of Big Ideas) Best Price: $10.54	Food in Colonial and Federal America (Food in American History) Best Price: $47.12 Being a huge fan of Sandy Oliver and her book Salt Water Foodways, I have to admit I was a...	The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun Best Price: $75.00 ~The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun~ is a powerful biography, of not one but...	A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America Best Price: $8.78 Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first permanent settlement established by the English in...	Colonial Craftsmen: And the Beginnings of American Industry Best Price: $13.00 I now own three of Edwin Tunis' books. The drawings are wonderful -- detailed. The writing...

Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President Best Price: $36.00 Quoting Mark Twain, who felt that Hayes's presidency "would steadily rise into higher and...	The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Best Price: $15.21 The farmers of colonial New England have been widely accused of farming extensively, neglecting...	Gettysburg (Voices of the Civil War) Best Price: $2.13 There are probably thousands of books written about the Civil War, and many of them cover the...

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Colonial Period