2,254円 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 details, and provocative in its fresh interpret...

1,243円 The history of the American rebellion against England, written by one of America’s preeminent eighteenth-century historians, differs from many views of the Revolution. It is not colored by excessive worship of the Founding Fathers but, instead, permeated by sympathy for all those involved in the ...

164円 When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people ...

3,040円 The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery off...

300円 *Perfect for ages 7-9.*Includes pictures.*Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers.“By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. And the appearance of it m...

2,388円 The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boa...

2,533円 In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson's father, although uneducat...

447円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS I. The Voyage to New England II. Their Early Shelters and Later Dwellings III. How They Furnished Their Houses IV. Counterpanes and Coverlets V. Concerning Their Apparel VI. Pewter in the Early Days ...

3,575円 Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luc...

4,245円 Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of i...

164円 A NARRATIVE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PARTICULARS IN THE LIFE OF UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW is the earliest published autobiography of an African and former slave published in Britain. Born in modern-day Nigeria, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c. 1705-1775) was reportedly a grandson of the king of Zaara, but sold into...

260円 *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers*Includes a Table of Contents. “By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. And the appearance ...