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  • A Harmony of the Spirits

    Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

    by Patrick M. Erben ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth — first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin — that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Worlds of William Penn

    by Andrew R. Murphy, Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann, Marcus Gallo, Audrey Horning, Elizabeth Sauer, Scott Sowerby, Patrick M. Erben0, Michael Goode1, Alexander Mazzaferro2, Sarah A. Morgan Smith3, Catie Gill4, Adrian Chastain Weimer5, Rachel Love Monroy6, Evan Haefeli7, Patrick Cecil8, Shuichi Wanibuchi9 ...
    William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • New York Burning

    Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

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    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —The New Yorker“A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to ... Read more

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  • The Manor

    Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

    by Mac Griswold ...
    Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island ... Read more

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  • The Birth of America

    From Before Columbus to the Revolution

    by William R. Polk ...
    In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from Europe came from and with an emphasis on what they believed they were going to, Polk introduces the native Indians encountered in the New World and the black Africans who were brought across the Atlantic ... Read more

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  • The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (Illustrated Edition)

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    John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian who wrote letters to Charles Darwin and became a voluminous writer of histories near the end of his life. The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, and it was through the popularization of Charles ... Read more

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  • From Slave Ship to Harvard

    Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family

    by James H. Johnston ...
    "Part historical narrative, part genealogical detective work," this is t he true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations ( Library Journal).Using diaries, court records, legal documents, books, paintings, photographs, and oral histories, From Slave Ship to Harvard traces a family—from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Civil War to Harvard and ... Read more

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  • The Printer and the Preacher

    Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the Surprising Friendship That Invented America

    by Randy Petersen ...
    The true story of a friendship between two very different men: Founding Father Ben Franklin and famed preacher of the Great Awakening George Whitefield.They were the most famous men in America. They came from separate countries, followed different philosophies, and led dissimilar lives. But they were fast friends. No two people did more to shape America in the mid-1700s.Benjamin Franklin was the ... Read more

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  • The Bowery

    The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

    by Stephen Paul DeVillo ...
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  • The Battle of Lake George

    England's First Triumph in the French and Indian War

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    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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  • A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia

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