History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early AmericaRelying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had rarely intermingled...
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Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John DickinsonWhy is it that so many Americans have not heard of John Dickinson? John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Delaware was an early leader of the resistance to British rule in the American colonies. In fact, to many, he was the most prominent figure in...
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits SeriesCamilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to...
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Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionThe legend tells us of Sacagawea ("Bird Woman") as the guide showing Lewis and Clark the way over the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, and fictionalized accounts have embroidered on her life as it might have been. In fact, however, her life as it...
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of WitchcraftTormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a...
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Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American SouthThey worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in the mud...
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Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and KentuckyThey left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdom of Ulster, they lived for several generations on Irish soil before...
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch TrialsThe story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem...
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Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American ReligionThe Declaration of Independence depicted Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages, and from its founding the United States aimed to expand westward by seizing Indigenous lands. While white settlers saw these conquests as victories for "true religion," native people invoked the spirits in their own...
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Squanto: A Native OdysseyTaken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history "A captivating, elegantly written biography."--Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography from the Association of American Publishers ● Winner of the...
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Squanto: A Native OdysseyTaken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history "A captivating, elegantly written biography."--Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography from the Association of American Publishers ● Winner of the...
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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. HistoryAlthough the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by its "passionate prose" (James F. Brooks), historian Linford Fisher demonstrates how the...
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped AmericaIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who...
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped AmericaIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who...
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The 1619 Project Myth"There is no one better to pick apart the disastrous 1619 Project than Phil Magness. If every classroom that incorporated the 1619 Project into its curriculum replaced it with this book, the country would be better off." --Coleman Hughes Slavery is part of America's...
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans"Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans's first century." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp:...
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The American Revolution: Essays on the Founding EraThe long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives of men and women throughout the colonies. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, they reinvented their lives, their communities, and their vision of the...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Other WritingsExplore the memoirs of one of the most inventive Americans in history. A fascinating and unconventionally educated man, Benjamin Franklin imparts--in his own words--wisdom and remarkable life lessons on the art of living with great personal integrity. Taken from John Bigelow's carefully researched 1868...
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.The immigrants were a...
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The Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670-1840A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life. For more than 150 years between their first encounters with the English in...
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