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  • Munsee Indian Trade in Ulster County New York 1712-1732

    Edited by Kees-Jan Waterman, J Smith ...
    Series series The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
    This book offers the full, annotated translation of a recently discovered Dutch account book recording trade with Native Americans in Ulster County, New York, from 1712 to 1732. The ledger contains just over two-thousand transactions with about two-hundred native individuals. Slightly more than one-hundred Indians appear with their names listed. The volume and granularity of the entries allow for ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    **"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History**New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the YearWith a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.**How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and V.. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Revolution Song

    The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

    by Russell Shorto ...
    “An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago TribuneAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • What Was the Boston Tea Party?

    by Kathleen Krull, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Lauren Mortimer ...
    Series series What Was?
    "No Taxation without Representation!" The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the American Revolution—outraged by the tax on tea, American colonists chose to destroy the tea by dumping it into the water! Learn all about the famed colonialists who fought against the British Monarchy, and read about this act of rebellion from our history! With black-and-white illustrations throughout and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Simon Girty

    Wilderness Warrior

    by Edward Butts ...
    Series Book 29 - Quest Biography
    During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • King Philip's War

    The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict

    by Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias ...
    The harrowing story of one of America's first and costliest wars—featuring a new foreword by bestselling author Nathaniel PhilbrickAt once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860

    An Account from Letters, Diaries and Newspapers, 1793-1860

    by F.R. (Hamish) Berchem ...
    This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada’s defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • What Is Juneteenth?

    by Kirsti Jewel, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez ...
    Series series What Was?
    Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States.On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union solder and listened as he read the most remarkable words they would ever hear. They were no longer enslaved: they were free. The inhumane practice of forced labor with no pay was now ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Bulletproof George Washington

    by David Barton ...
    Colonial George Washington's perilous experiences in the French and Indian War are chronicled in this riveting account of God's providence and protection. The only officer on horseback to avoid being shot down, young Washington openly attributed his miraculous escape from harm to the intervention of a sovereign God. A story once founded in student textbooks, this awe-inspiring adventure is ... Read more

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  • Massacre of the Conestogas

    On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County

    by Jack Brubaker ...
    A gripping account of how a vigilante mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen butchered a Native American tribe—and got away with it.On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty Susquehannock women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the tragic ... Read more

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  • Virginia Barbecue

    A History

    by Joseph R Haynes ...
    The award-winning barbecue cook and author of Brunswick Stew shares the flavorful history of the Old Dominion's unique culinary heritage.With more than four hundred years of history, Virginians lay claim to the invention of southern barbecue. Native Virginian Powhatan tribes slow roasted meat on wooden hurdles or grills. James Madison hosted grand barbecue parties during the colonial and federal ... Read more

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  • Guns and Gods in My Genes

    A 15,000-mile North American search through four centuries of history, to the Mayflower

    by Neill McKee ...
    Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir **Finding Myself in Borneo,**takes the reader through 400 years and 15,000 miles of an on-the-road adventure, discovering stories of his Scots-Irish ancestors in Canada, while uncovering their attitudes towards religion and guns. His adventure turns south and west as he follows the trail of his maternal grandfather, a Canadian preacher who ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus