1,344円 In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship. Uncertain of what they had found or what its value might be, they called in two nautical archaeologistsーWarren Riess and Sheli Smithーt...

5,576円 In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century...

2,144円 The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...

6,563円 Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of...

1,008円 This is the story of one of the biggest Indian victories over whites in the history of North America. The French and many different Indian tribes decisively defeated a much larger British army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755 in western Pennsylvania, during the French and Indian War. Among ...

4,038円 Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, ...

503円 John Taylor (December 19, 1753 August 21, 1824) usually called John Taylor of Caroline was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates (177981, 178385, 17961800) and in the United States Senate (179294, 1803, 182224). He wrote several books on politics and agriculture. ...

550円 Includes:•Charles River Editors original history of The Salem Witch Trials•Salem Witchcraft and Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather by Charles Wentworth Upham• Memorable Providences, Witchcrafts, Possessions and The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather"More than once it has been said, t...

0円 Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from: -- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America -- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil -- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something -- Passion in an Improper Place -- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost ...

166円 Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamiltons (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in hel...

380円 *Includes pictures of John, John Quincy, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes several letters and diary entries from both men and Abigail Adams. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.John Adams has become one of the more popular pr...

503円 *Includes Benjamin Franklins Autobiography and a chronology of his life, John Woolmans Journal, and William Penns Fruits of Solitude. *Illustrated with images of Franklin, Woolman, and Penn. The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by ...