Category - Biography & Autobiography
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The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's fatherThe Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington,...
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America's most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much bet...
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John Jay: Founding Father
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Seward and Stanton, here is the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of...
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Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachus...
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria Two decades before he led America t...
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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the l...
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Travels of William Bartram
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /In its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and drew from i...
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Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom (1723-1792) was a prominent political and religious leader of the Indigenous peoples of present-day N...
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Catharine, Queen of the Tumbling Waters
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"I'm not like your white women who lose their tongues and wits in a house full of men."So says Catharine Montour to her white captive during the In...
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Disaster on the Sandusky: The Life of Colonel William Crawford
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In this first-ever biography, historian Robert Thompson tells the dramatic story of the life and death of William Crawford, a legendary figure from...
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The Most Perfect Justice: Alexander McGillivray and George Washington Strive to Save the Creek Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $10.50 - Original price $10.50Original price $10.50$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Alexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nat...
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The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania is a factual account of the indigenous history of North America's Eastern Frontier and the contributions made by ...
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King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung 1700-1763
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Teedyuscung (c. 1700-1763) was known as "King of the Delawares." He worked to establish a permanent Lenape (Delaware) home in eastern Pennsylvania ...
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Redeemed Captive
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /When a party of French and Indians attacked Deerfield, Mass., in 1704, 49 people were killed, including Reverend Williams's wife and two of their c...
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The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation t...
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Roman Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Br...
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Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /On the southern colonial frontier--the lands south of the Carolinas from the Savannah to the Mississippi rivers--Indian traders were an essential c...
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Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
PaperbackOriginal price $47.50 - Original price $47.50Original price $47.50$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...
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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account o...
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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account o...
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Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Sets the record straight in almost every instance. . . . Pocahontas is an outstanding book--by far the most sensible and complete to date."--Book ...
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First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americ...
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First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americ...
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
PaperbackOriginal price $21.50 - Original price $21.50Original price $21.50$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the grea...
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