W. W. Norton & Company, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This epic work--named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times--tells the story of the.....
Scribner, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before.....
Oxford University Press, 2001. Trade Paperback. 298 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public.....
Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 265 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing.....
Liveright, August 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though.....
Beacon Press, August 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the.....
The New Press, July 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." --Howard Zinn Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill.....
Viking, August 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster--a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. -Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn's.....
One World, November 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ONE OF THE BEST.....
Riverhead Books, October 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's years in Washington's.....
Liveright, August 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though.....
Vintage, July 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. Fascinating ... Lively ... A convincing explanation of why our world is the way.....
Vintage, October 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Politicians come and go, but the Constitution stands as the supreme law of the land. Setting forth the workings of our democracy, it is the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics as diverse and galvanizing as immigration, gun.....
Vintage, October 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Politicians come and go, but the Constitution stands as the supreme law of the land. Setting forth the workings of our democracy, it is the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics as diverse and galvanizing as immigration, gun.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved.....
Liveright, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood.....
Random House Inc, September 2001. Trade Paperback. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Printed by Wm. Greer, 1843. Trade Paperback. Kendall's Expositor, Vol. 3, No. 23, October 31, 1843, pages 354-368. Much on Clay, Jackson and tariffs. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Issue with illustrated banner. Paper tanned and soiled. Former owner name in ink on page 353. Extracted.....
Harper Perennial, November 2021. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country. -- James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) &.....
Trade Paperback. All sheets are fragile, all have been previously folded and are browned to various degrees. Some are separated at folds. All remain legible. Interesting collection of early US documents.
American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association, 1899. Poster. Poster, oblong format, 11 x 14 inches, printed in black on white with color image of 'Birth of Our Nation's Flag' in center. The Association was formed to 1898 to raise money to purchase the house, restore it, and open.....
Sandstone Press, 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 58 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin. First edition thus. Near fine copy in brown cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket as issued.
Simon & Schuster, September 2018. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The inspiration for the forthcoming two-part series Theodore Roosevelt, premiering May 31 on the HISTORY Channel, and three-part epic documentary event Abraham Lincoln, available now on the HISTORY Channel. "After five decades of magisterial.....
Free Press, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This provocative perspective on America's history claims that the country's personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fringes of society history--slaves, immigrants, gangsters, and others.....