A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
By: James Horn
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settl…
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1. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
By: Fred Anderson
4.19
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more
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2. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
By: Russell Shorto
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polygl… read more
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"If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures, then the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the New World birthplace of that idea, the spot…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There w…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but t…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"Many people--whether they live in the heartland or on Fifth Avenue--like to think of New York City as so wild and extreme in its cultural fusion that it's an anomaly in the United States, almost a fo…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
3. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
By: Bernard Bailyn
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
From an acclaimed historian of early America, a compelling account of the first great transit of pe… read more
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4. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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5. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
By: Buddy Levy
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Conquistadorcomes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest … read more
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6. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
By: Robert Middlekauff
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically ac… read more
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7. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
8. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
By: Andrés Reséndez
3.68
Format: None pages,
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9. The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
By: Scott Weidensaul
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, … read more
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10. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By: Buddy Levy
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more
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11. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By: Jon Meacham
4.04
Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more
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"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
12. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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13. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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14. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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15. A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
By: Gregory May
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally co… read more
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16. Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
By: Joseph Kelly
4.10
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for re… read more
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17. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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18. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
By: Woody Holton
3.90
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian)… read more
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19. The Jamestown Brides: The Untold Story of England's 'Maids for Virginia'
By: Jennifer Potter
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London… read more
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20. A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
By: James Horn
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settl… read more
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21. Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation
By: Tobey Pearl
3.38
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
A brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and a riveting account of the first murder trial in U.S. hist… read more
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"A horse in a stall is safe, but that is not what horses are made for."-Tobey Pearl, Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation
