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  • The Case of the Piglet's Paternity

    Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1619-1963

    by Jon C. Blue ...
    "Incomparable insight into an early colonial legal system thoroughly influenced by Biblical interpretations . . . sure to appeal." — Harvard Law ReviewIn the mid-seventeenth century, judges in the short-lived New Haven Colony presided over a remarkable series of trials ranging from murder and bestiality, to drunken sailors, frisky couples, faulty shoes, and shipwrecks. The cases were reported in ... Read more

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  • In the Devil's Snare

    The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

    by Mary Beth Norton ...
    Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers ... Read more

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  • The Claim of the American Loyalists

    by Joseph Galloway ...
    One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle of Lexington, the colonies sent representatives to the Second Continental Congress, the new ... Read more

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  • The Jamestown Experiment

    The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America

    by Tony Williams ...
    The American dream was built along the banks of the James River in Virginia.The settlers who established America's first permanent English colony at Jamestown were not seeking religious or personal freedom. They were comprised of gentlemen adventurers and common tradesmen who risked their lives and fortunes on the venture and stood to reap the rewards—the rewards of personal profit and the glory ... Read more

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  • Firsthand Account of the Midnight Ride (Illustrated Edition)

    by Paul Revere ...
    One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle of Lexington, the colonies sent representatives to the Second Continental Congress, the new ... Read more

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  • U.S. History 101

    Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More!

    by Kathleen Sears ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series
    Explore US history, key events, and influential figures with this engaging, fact-filled introduction to American history, from the founding era to modern times.The stories of politicos and historic events are often turned into snooze-worthy lectures that even Benjamin Franklin would reject. This guide cuts out all the boring details and instead provides you with a thrilling lesson in US history ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Eastern Frontier

    by Charles Clark ...
    In this fascinating social history of America’s first frontier, Charles Clark brings to life the people and settlements of Maine and New Hampshire before the Revolutionary War. He describes what life was like beyond the Merrimack from the early fishing camps on the coast to the settlement of mid-eighteenth-century wilderness towns in the interior.The sturdy, independent men who first settled the ... Read more

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  • The Forty Years that Created America

    The Story of the Explorers, Promoters, Investors, and Settlers Who Founded the First English Colonies

    by Edward M. Lamont ...
    The names “Jamestown” and “Plymouth” have become synonymous for most students of American history with “founding,” and “birth”—both, of the American nation, and of freedom and democracy themselves. In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country’s formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of America’s earliest founding fathers: those who paved ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Battle of Lake George

    England's First Triumph in the French and Indian War

    by William R. Griffith ...
    In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George.Under the command of French general Jean-Armand, Baron de Dieskau, the men ambushed the approaching British forces, sparking a bloody conflict for control of the lake and its access to New York's interior. Against all odds, British commander William Johnson ... Read more

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  • The Search For Old King's Road

    Old Kings Road, #1

    by Bill Ryan ...
    Series Book 1 - Old Kings Road
    Florida's Old King's Road ran from Georgia south of Jacksonville (the called Cow Ford), to St. Augustine, thru what is now Flagler County Florida and ended in New Symrna on Florida's Atlantic Coast. It was once named one of the most important highways in America. It has vanished.This is the history of Old King's. It covers historian Bill Ryan's effort to locate events including the great slave ... Read more

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  • Religion and Profit

    Moravians in Early America

    by Katherine Carté Engel ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in order to spread the Gospel to thousands of nearby colonists ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Pen and Ink Witchcraft

    Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties ... Read more

    $35.99 USD