In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a special...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Mann, Charles C.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage: October 2006

Seller ID: 255377

ISBN: 1400032059

Condition: New

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Mann, Charles C.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage: October 2006

Seller ID: 256210

ISBN: 1400032059

Condition: New

1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

By: Richard Vinen

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Harper: July 2018

Seller ID: 229010

ISBN: 0062458744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

By: Mark Kurlansky

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Ballantine Books: December 2003

Seller ID: 242778

ISBN: 0345455819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With "1968," Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black...
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50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism (Things You're Not Supposed to Know)

By: Michael Zezima

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Disinformation Books: September 2005

Seller ID: 230469

ISBN: 1932857184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Since when was it unpatriotic to dissent? Why is it "un-American" to question our government's policies? And how did the Far Right manage to claim the flag exclusively for itself?A book that the country desperately needs, "50 American Revolutions" is a concise, quick guide to the people and events in our country's history that progressives and anyone not impressed by the radical Right's warped version of patriotism can be proud of. Author Mickey Z begins with Thomas Paine's revolutionary manifesto "Common Sense," written anonymously as a pamphlet in January 1776 and read by every member ...
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500 Years of Life in America.

By: Marshall B. DAVIDSON

Price: $8.95

Publisher: -: December 1986

Seller ID: 126268

ISBN: 0810980770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A brief history of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania

By: Gerald S Lestz

Price: $7.98

Publisher: John Baer's Sons: January 1998

Seller ID: 246963

ISBN: B0006RFWTG

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

By: Philip Shenon

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Picador: February 2015

Seller ID: 229059

ISBN: 1250060753

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Delusion Of Satan

By: Frances Hill

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: August 1997

Seller ID: 137766

ISBN: 0306807971

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

During the bleak winter of 1691 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of a black slave, their accusations soon multiplied; in less than two years nineteen men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished.This evenhanded and insightful history illuminates this horrifying episode with visceral clarity, from the opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the cr...
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A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts

By: Elias Nason

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Heritage Books: October 2007

Seller ID: 239929

ISBN: 0788410431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia (two volume set)

By: William Stephens

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Readex Microprint: December 1965

Seller ID: 153492

ISBN: B018NZDCLW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Man Called Intrepid

By: William Stevenson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Lyons Press: September 2000

Seller ID: 263342

ISBN: 158574154X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"A Man Called Intrepid" is the chronicle of the world's first integrated intelligence operation and of its chief, William Stephenson, whose code name "Intrepid", and bold mission were given to him by Winston Churchill.In 1940, when the survival of Britain and the fate of free nations hung perilously in the balance, "Intrepid" was charged with maintaining the closest possible but most guarded covert communication between Churchill and President Roosevelt, and also with establishing, from virtually nothing, a worldwide intelligence network that would challenge the staggering force of the Nazi...
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A Most Troublesome Situation: The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764

By: Todish, Timothy J.,Harburn, Todd E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Purple Mountain Press: May 2006

Seller ID: 270542

ISBN: 1930098723

Condition: New

A Museum of Early American Tools (Americana)

By: Eric Sloane

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: November 2002

Seller ID: 60900

ISBN: 0486425606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
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A Museum of Early American Tools (Americana)

By: Eric Sloane

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: November 2002

Seller ID: 235252

ISBN: 0486425606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

By: Ray Raphael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: June 2002

Seller ID: 194867

ISBN: 0060004401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A sweeping narrative of the wartime experience, A People's History of the American Revolution is the first book to view the revolution through the eyes of common folk. Their stories have long been overlooked in the mythic telling of America's founding, but are crucial to a comprehensive understanding of the fight for independence. Now, the experiences of farmers, laborers, rank and file soldiers, women, Native Americans, and African Americans -- found in diaries, letters, memoirs and other long-ignored primary sources -- create a gritty account of rebellion, filled with ideals and outrage, los...
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Howard Zinn

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics: November 2015

Seller ID: 265206

ISBN: 0062397346

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution

By: Charles E. Bennett,Donald R. Lennon

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: January 1991

Seller ID: 214470

ISBN: 0807819824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 - 1849

By: Sidney Blumenthal

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2017

Seller ID: 130378

ISBN: 1476777268

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic

By: Henry Mayer

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Grove Press: June 2001

Seller ID: 257642

ISBN: 0802138152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism

By: Carol Berkin

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Basic Books: May 2017

Seller ID: 229057

ISBN: 0465060889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West

By: James Donovan

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: March 2008

Seller ID: 237756

ISBN: 0316155780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility. Custer, who was conveniently dead, took the brunt of the blame. The truth, however, was far more complex. A TERRIBLE GLORY is the first book to relate the entire story of this endlessly fascinating battle, and the first to call upon al...
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Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage

By: Edith Gelles

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: April 2010

Seller ID: 243799

ISBN: 0061354120

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Married in 1764, Abigail and John Adams worked side by side for a decade, raising a family while John became one of the most prosperous, respected lawyers in Massachusetts. When his duties as a statesman and diplomat during the Revolutionary War expanded, Abigail and John endured lengthy separations. But their loyalty and love remained strong, as their passionate, forthright letters attest. It's in this correspondence that Abigail comes into her own as an independent woman. It's also in these exchanges that we learn about the familial tragedies that tested them: the early deaths of their so...
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Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

By: Roland Marchand

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of California Press: September 1985

Seller ID: 230840

ISBN: 0520058852

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, reading wear to cover and edges.
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Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s

By: Howard Brick

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 263025

ISBN: 0801487005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Icons of America)

By: Susan Jacoby

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 211176

ISBN: 0300121334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948--that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting r...
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All aboard!: The railroad in American life

By: George H Douglas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Paragon House: January 1992

Seller ID: 267430

ISBN: 1557784868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

By: Robert Goodwin

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: March 2019

Seller ID: 238605

ISBN: 1632867222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

By: Robert Goodwin

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: March 2019

Seller ID: 239230

ISBN: 1632867222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

America Explored: A Cartographical History of the Exploration of North America

By: Adrian Johnson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Studio: October 1974

Seller ID: 218347

ISBN: 067011670x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World

By: Kevin Baker

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Artisan: October 2016

Seller ID: 227164

ISBN: 1579656943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

America: A Narrative History (6th Edition, Volume One)

By: George Brown Tindall,David E. Shi

Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co Inc: June 2003

Seller ID: 256984

ISBN: 0393924262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

By: Edmund S. Morgan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: May 2009

Seller ID: 186041

ISBN: 0393070107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in the founding fathers so intense that a reader or television viewer of today might imagine that America was the creation of beings who were flawless in their wisdom and courage. As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edmund S. Morgan shows here, Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes. But, drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he presents a different cast of characters among them Indians, witches, heretics, and naysayers men and women who went against the grain, in addition to the stock figures of our national hagiography...
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood

By: Howard Blum

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: October 2009

Seller ID: 82180

ISBN: 0307346951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself-a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith. "Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . "American Lightning "throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, for us today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here." "-Los Angeles Times ""A ...
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American Places: Encounters with History

By: William E. Leuchtenburg

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 2000

Seller ID: 239970

ISBN: 019513026X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination. Whether it is a battlefield or the home of a notable American, there is no question that we understand the past in a different and more immediate way when we encounter it "on the ground." In American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their own encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear on a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway Park. Here James M. McPherson writes about the battl...
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

By: Walter R. Borneman

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 164246

ISBN: 031622099X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

American Transcendentalism: A History

By: Philip F. Gura

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Hill and Wang: September 2008

Seller ID: 228272

ISBN: 0809016443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"American Transcendentalism "is a sweeping narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the American Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these informed the fierce theological debates that, so often first in Massachusetts and eventually throughout America, gave rise to practical, personal, and quixotic attempts to improve, even perfect the world....
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