History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)

A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land. When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as "Whites," and Native Americans did not think of themselves as...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes "a vivid account" (The Wall Street Journal) of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives...

Author: Marion L. StarkeyPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 08/05/1969Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 7.92h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780385035095About the AuthorMarion Lena Starkey was the author of numerous works of history. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Starkey worked as a newspaper editor for the Saugus...

"[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter's story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory."-The New York Times Book Review In 1791, Robert Carter III, a...

A Washington Post Noteworthy Book "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." --The New Yorker "From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." --Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Revolutionary "A fascinating, innovative,...

In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from...

A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf South In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smaller Native American nations that shaped the development of the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This is the heralded "definitive history" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine. Twenty-three leading historians, assembled...

This formidable history of South Carolina stretches from the territory's discovery, through its earliest years, its nascence as a prospering colony, and finally its statehood in the United States of America.Published in 1860, this history benefits from several sources and texts which are seldom...

The Hunters of Kentucky covers a wide range of frontier existence, from daily life and survival to wars, exploits, and even flora and fauna. the pioneers and their lives are profiled in biographical sketches, giving a rich sampling of the personalities involved in the...

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world. The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development of slavery across the...

In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE AND POSTSCRIPT "Astonishing . . ....

Dive into a rich historical journey of Johns Island. Uncover its place in the Lowcountry, the South, and the Nation. Explore from colonial days to today's growth challenges. A must-read for history enthusiasts. Lee Glover's The Largest Sea Island takes you on an enlightening...

Dive into a rich historical journey of Johns Island. Uncover its place in the Lowcountry, the South, and the Nation. Explore from colonial days to today's growth challenges. A must-read for history enthusiasts. Lee Glover's The Largest Sea Island takes you on an enlightening...

The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the...

To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and mountain ranges of...

Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the...

BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER - King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indigenous peoples--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific...