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  • This Violent Empire

    The Birth of an American National Identity

    by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great Britain.Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • American History:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul S. Boyer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Inventing a Nation

    Washington, Adams, Jefferson

    by Gore Vidal ...
    Series series Icons of America
    This New York Times bestseller offers "an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all" ( New York Review of Books).In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slave Nation

    How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution

    by Alfred Blumrosen, Ruth Blumrosen ...
    A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future.In 1772, the High Court in London freed a slave from Virginia named Somerset, setting a precedent that would end slavery in England. In America, racist fury over this momentous decision united the Northern and Southern ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Documents of the American Revolution

    by Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, James Otis & Thomas Paine ...
    The American Revolution is well ingrained in the minds of every American, who grows up learning famous phrases like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and We the People. The narrative of the social and political rebellion against the British Empire that ended with 13 colonies forming the United States of America is a well known story. The colonies officially severed ties with the British ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Story of America

    Essays on Origins

    by Jill Lepore ...
    In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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

    by John Fiske ...
    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

    $4.11 CAD

  • The 10 Big Lies About America

    Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation

    by Michael Medved ...
    “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country—in spite of incontrovertible facts to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Leap in the Dark

    The Struggle to Create the American Republic

    by John Ferling ...
    It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Sons of Providence

    The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution

    by Charles Rappleye ...
    In 1774, as the new world simmered with tensions that would lead to the violent birth of a new nation, two Rhode Island brothers were heading toward their own war over the issue that haunts America to this day: slavery.Set against a colonial backdrop teeming with radicals and reactionaries, visionaries, spies, and salty sea captains, Sons of Providence is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • April 19, 1775: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington & Concord

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes Revere's account of his Midnight Ride and Longfellow's famous poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"*Discusses some of the myths and legends about the Midnight Ride and the Battles of Lexington & Concord, including the debate over who fired first. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes a Table of Contents. "Out started six officers, seized my bridle, put ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD