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"Doherty's fast-paced and colorful blow-by-blow account is a swashbuckling tale of adventure in the age of exploration." ー Publishers Weekly In one of the most triumphant high sea stories ever told……続きを見る

A "hugely enjoyable" chronicle of the Adams, Quincy and Hancock families and how they helped spark the American Revolution ( Christian Science Monitor). Awarded the 2021 New England Society in the C……続きを見る

By: Lyman Chalkley, Pub. 1912, reprinted 2023, Volume #3, 712 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-099-2. This monumental 3 volume set of books consists of abstracts of court records pertaining t……続きを見る

By: Lyman Chalkley, Pub. 1912, reprinted 2023, Volume #2, 656 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-099-2. This monumental 3 volume set of books consists of abstracts of court records pertaining t……続きを見る

By: Lyman Chalkley, Pub. 1912, reprinted 2023, Volume #1, 620 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-099-2. This monumental 3 volume set of books consists of abstracts of court records pertaining t……続きを見る

"With deft insights, Tad Baker illuminates a supernatural mystery from seventeenth-century New England . . . a gripping tale well told." ーAlan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning author In 1682, ten yea……続きを見る

Three and a half decades before the city of New York witnessed the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumors of a massive conspiracy among the city’s ……続きを見る

Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Longlisted for the Cundill Prize “Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning a……続きを見る

By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1979, reprinted 2018, 204 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-158-2. These court minutes are the earliest extant records from this crucial South Carolina County. Many per……続きを見る

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, and Tales of a Traveller is a timeless collection of short stories written by Washington Irving, one of America's foremost literary figures. Originally p……続きを見る

A Comprehensive Introduction to American History: Echoes of Liberty offers a thorough and engaging exploration of the United States' past, from its colonial beginnings to its current standing in the……続きを見る

"A marvelously readable yet scholarly history" of American womenーof European, Indigenous, and African backgroundsーin the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ( Kirkus Reviews). The European, Nativ……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2022 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award Translingual Inheritance tells a new story of the early days of democracy in the United States, when English had not yet become the onl……続きを見る

Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a milita……続きを見る

Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linch……続きを見る

General John Forbes’s campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years’ War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign ……続きを見る

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolition……続きを見る

**A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Best Book of 2025 One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrati……続きを見る

This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774-1801. While scholars have considered historic friendships, t……続きを見る

By the time the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, the colonies had a long history of self-government. Many of the members of the Constitutional Convention had drafted similar documents for ……続きを見る

Christian evangelism was the ostensible motive for much of the early European interaction with the indigenous population of America. The religious orders of the Catholic Church were the front-line r……続きを見る

A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Rep……続きを見る

Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers. Science and Specters at Salem turns instead to the intellectual background of the judges……続きを見る

This book explores the influence of classical texts upon early European settlers and inhabitants of the Tidewater region of Virginia, addressing how Greek and Roman literature and culture shaped and……続きを見る

Engaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans in North and South America o……続きを見る

The African American servitude that ended more than a century and a half (about 6 generations) ago has still today a powerful emotionally-driven presence in American public life. Many who use the te……続きを見る

ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Award of Distinction–History and Biography Men of their time? Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three mos……続きを見る

A revised version of an American history classic, exploring the people and culture of the Revolutionary era that birthed the nation. When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was ……続きを見る

"Combines the dash and intuition of a daring novelist with a scrupulous regard for [sources] . . . to produce an unusual and moving work of history." ーRichard F. Snow, Editor and Chief, American He……続きを見る

Taken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgi……続きを見る