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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as ?spellbinding? by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M Barry Publisher Comments A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America. For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling Publisher Comments It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Give Me Liberty!: An American History by Eric Foner Publisher Comments Unlike so many textbooks that overwhelm beginning students with encyclopedic detail, Give Me Liberty!presents the events of American history in a nimble chronological narrative that equips students to understand their significance. It is a textbook that... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price: $27.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America (89 Edition) by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E Stannard Publisher Comments For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed Publisher Comments The immensely rich biography of a houseand#8212;Sylvester Manor, on Shelter Island, New Yorkand#8212;and of the unknown Colonial way of life it reveals The acclaimed author and landscape historian Mac Griswold brings alive the story both of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul Publisher Comments Advance praise for The First Frontier "Excitement abounds in Scott Weidensaul’s detailed history of the first clashes between European settlers and Native Americans on the East Coast. By turns bloody and gruesome, poignant and haunting, The... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 by Peter C. (edt) Mancall Publisher Comments The 18 essays in this volume provide a fresh perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. The collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776 (05 Edition) by Betty Wood Publisher Comments Slavery in Colonial America, 1619 1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1780 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900) by Nicholas M. Beasley Publisher Comments This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britains Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina, Nicholas M. Beasley finds that the... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Caravelle Edition #0001: The Americans, the Colonial Experience by Daniel J Boorstin Publisher Comments Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white hot days of the Revolution." - Bruce Lancaster, Saturday... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye Publisher Comments Sons of Providence paints a vivid portrait of Colonial life as we follow these founding brothers in their rise to the heights of American commerce and power and from revolution to nationhood.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From a Far Country from a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World by Catharine Randall Publisher Comments In From a Far Country Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. The Camisard religion was marked by more... (read more) Your price: $45.50 New - Hardcover
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Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness by Thomas P Slaughter Publisher Comments This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times by Charles Royster Publisher Comments In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the equally insatiable American demand for European... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast by Michelle Lemaster Publisher Comments The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoplesand with unfamiliar gender systems. In a region in which the balance of powerbetween multiple players... (read more) Your price: $47.50 New - Hardcover
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The Invention of Air: A Study of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion, the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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