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  • The Everything Founding Fathers Book

    All you need to know about the men who shaped America

    by Meg Greene, Paula Stathakis ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    George Washington. John Adams. Benjamin Franklin. These great leaders--and many others--made innumerable contributions that laid the groundwork for our nation. But who were they really?In actuality, the founding fathers were a diverse group of men and not the homogenous collection history has shaped them into. Some were puritanical but some were philanderers; some were wealthy while others were ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • George Washington

    The Founding Father

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Series Book 29 - Eminent Lives
    By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and presided over the production and ratification of a constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted for more than two hundred years. Yet today Washington remains a distant figure to many Americans—a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R.B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington Franklin Jefferson Adams ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Mr. Jefferson's Women

    by Jon Kukla ...
    From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political.The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for the founding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A History of US: Making Thirteen Colonies

    1600-1740

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Israel on the Appomattox

    A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

    by Melvin Patrick Ely ...
    **WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' Choice**Thomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong.Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • When the United States Spoke French

    Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

    by Francois Furstenberg ...
    In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these ... Read more

    Was $8.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

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  • From Resistance to Revolution

    by Pauline Maier ...
    Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence as political allegiances corroded and once-loyal subjects were gradually transformed into ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Love of Freedom

    Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

    by Catherine Adams, Elizabeth H. Pleck ...
    They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Strategy of Victory

    How General George Washington Won the American Revolution

    by Thomas Fleming ...
    A sweeping grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US Army.Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. Following the victory in 1775 at Bunker Hill, patriot leaders were convinced that the key to victory was the home-grown ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • The True Benjamin Franklin

    by Sydney George Fisher ...
    This edition of Mr. Fisher's "Franklin" contains an appendix, in which the author presents all the proofs extant in regard to Franklin's alleged daughter, Mrs. Foxcroft. The propriety of this discussion is exceedingly doubtful. It may be conceded that Mrs. Foxcroft was acknowledged by Franklin as his daughter, but as nothing whatever is known of her mother, and almost as little of herself ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enjoy the Same Liberty

    Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era

    by Edward Countryman ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, draws on extensive research and primary sources to help him answer ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD