General Books


Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Best Price: $3.29 An interesting, though not particularly deep, look at the female relations of the men who get...	Washington: The Indispensable Man Best Price: $6.89 Americans need to read this book to understand the founding of our system of government.	The Conquerors (Winning of America Series) Best Price: $10.89 I'm hooked on these Allan Eckert books. The Conquerors has a multitude of characters to follow...	A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca Best Price: $12.54 This book opened up the ancient world of northern Mexico to me. How human life subsists in harsh...	The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege Best Price: $13.30 This book is huge and a bit intimidating at first, but as soon as I started I was hooked. The...



The Mississippi River in Maps & Views: From Lake Itasca to The Gulf of Mexico Best Price: $30.00 In The Mississippi River in Maps & Views more than eighty glorious full-color maps dating...	The Real History of the American Revolution: A New Look at the Past Best Price: $14.32 I wanted a larger overview of the Revolution and this volume provides exactly what I desired. I...	Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam Best Price: $7.95 Stephen Sears has crafted yet another excellent book on a Civil War battle. This time he...	Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England Best Price: $6.60 William Cronon's book Changes in the Land illuminates the relationship and impact the European...	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 Best Price: $13.12 Though long overshadowed in the traditional historical narrative by the American Revolution, the...



Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World Best Price: $10.64 If you are over 60 and did not self-educate on slavery,you need to read this book. Believe me,...	Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) Best Price: $14.94 For the definition of a word, we consult the dictionary and find the current acceptable...	Brandy Station 1863: First step towards Gettysburg (Campaign) Best Price: $10.98 Although the Battle of Brandy Station on 9 July 1863 is but little-known today, Civil War...	The Wealth of Nations, Books IV-V (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.56 Adam Smith like Marx sees changes in the economic system as a logical, inevitable sequence of...	White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America Best Price: $7.24 This is a true gripping epic that makes you feel the wind in your hair and the sand in your...

The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840 (Everyday Life in America) Best Price: $7.00 History is not just about great men and wars; as this book astutely illustrates, it's also about...	The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (P.S.) Best Price: $7.08 Borneman's French and Indian War provided me with exactly what I was looking for: a popular...	Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution Best Price: $12.00 My daughter used the book for Goverment AP class - mandatory reading - and with no regrets. It...	Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America Best Price: $15.50 To the extent that all our history is but a conduit back to our collective national memory, this...	The Americans: The Colonial Experience Best Price: $8.45 I recieved this book in quick order and I have found it an excellent read!

Everyday Life in Early America Best Price: $5.27 Not only is Hawke's book informative and concise, this book is "a good read." Many...	Good Newes from New England Best Price: $3.50 A very nice little book about advertising people to come to the New World from a person who...	A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution Best Price: $17.95 This is a difficult review to write and I finally settled on four stars. The authors have...	Chasing The Frontier: Scots-Irish in Early America Best Price: $13.85 As someone who tries to read every book published on the subject, I was quick to buy this book,...	Company Aytch Best Price: $5.10 This book is like sitting beside a veteran of the War Between The States and being led through...

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Best Price: $28.85 After visiting Monticello and being awestruck, I could hardly wait to visit again. This book...	George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War Best Price: $2.48 George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary...	In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life Best Price: $6.00 I enjoyed Deetz' newly updated introduction to Historical Archaeology in America. He makes clear...	The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America (John MacRae Books) Best Price: $11.99 Most of what we heard in school about the Jamestown colony stems from the self-congratulatory...	Confederate Ironclad vs Union Ironclad: Hampton Roads 1862 (Duel) Best Price: $11.50 The Ironclad was a revolutionary weapon of war. Although iron was used for protection in the Far...

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Best Price: $11.22 This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave...	Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America Best Price: $13.48 This is the first full book (ie not a sample or short story), I've read on the Kindle and it was...	The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War Best Price: $0.97 If you only read one book on the French and Indian War, Fred Anderson's work is an excellent...	New Vanguard 79: American Heavy Frigates 1794-1826 Best Price: $10.68 This is really an excellent book but be aware it is very short.. almost more of a booklet than a...	Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay Best Price: $10.00 The issues with slavery in America reached all the way back to the birth of the nation. The...

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence Best Price: $8.49 Referenced by William Lee Miller in Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography. Sometimes dry...	The Civil War Battlefield Guide, Second Edition Best Price: $14.15 The Conservation Fund's title "The Civil War Battlefield Guide" in my opinion is an...	The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England Best Price: $7.99 I purchased this book to review for a college course project. I found it to be an accurate and...	Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Best Price: $12.93 Excellent treatment of the real history of the USA, almost never covered in the standard texts....	Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America Best Price: $14.94 This book was extremely enlightening and great reading. It captures the history of Black...

George Washington's Sacred Fire Best Price: $16.19 This book clears the air from a lot of revisionist historians who are trying to blurr how...	The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution Best Price: $13.88 Young creates two essays; one that recalls George Robert Twelves Hewes participation in nearly...	A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials Best Price: $8.00 This book I really enjoyed. As a matter of fact, I read it twice. It was well written, well...	Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America Best Price: $13.86 I applaud the author's intent to bring this episode in engineering and science history to the...	Sex and Conquest : Gendered Violence, Political Order and the European Conquest of the Americas Best Price: $14.37 trexler's study of preconquest sexuality is thorough and thought-provoking. he investigates...

Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons Best Price: $7.91 The great contribution of this book is that it clears many of the historical misunderstandings...	Seeds of Discontent: The Deep Roots of the American Revolution, 1650-1750 Best Price: $16.88 Rev Carr has provided a written gift for those who appreciate the never ending responsibility of...	Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Best Price: $21.82 Surprisingly, despite Richard Allen's towering achievements, no modern biography of his life and...	Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (America: a Cultural History) Best Price: $5.88 If it weren't so massive, this might be a decent beach read. Unfortunately, while Fischer's...	The Bulletproof George Washington Best Price: $2.59 The historical evidence, much of which has been twisted or swept under the rug by revisionists,...

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America Best Price: $7.00 This is an insightful and educational book about the early Puritan society as they struggle for...	Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America) Best Price: $19.99 HARD TO FIND LITERATURE, BROUGHT TO LIFE AGAIN... A CLASSIC, TO UNDERSTAND TODAY'S CRISIS SOLUTION!	Across the Wide Missouri Best Price: $10.18 Living in Colorado, and having hiked and driven the western part of the United States, I think...	Twilight of Empire (Eckert, Allan W. Winning of America Series.) Best Price: $10.84 This is one of the weaker books in Eckert's series, but it was still a good read. I'd recommend...	The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Foundingof a Nation Best Price: $17.61 In Muse of the Revolution, author Nancy Rubin Stuart creates a vivid portrait of Mercy Otis...

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $5.98 McPherson does an extraordinary job of tying in many of the political and military threads of...	James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity Best Price: $18.95 This is one of the best biographies on the not only the life of James Monroe but on the...

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