Spirit of America Bookstore
U.S. History Dept.
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Books (and a few movies) on the past of the United States of America (exclusive of books on political issues)
with an eye toward not repeating the mistakes of prior generations.
Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. Politics Pages
History / United States books catalog at Amazon
U.S. History Timeline Pages
Ancient Times (3500 BCE to 1490)
1491-1800
1801-1900
1901-1930
1931-1950
1951-1968
1969-2000
2001-2010
2011-2016
2017 to present
Spirit of America Bookstore's TreasonGate Timeline Page
Working Minds / Solutions / American Labor History Timeline
Spirit of America Bookstore's G.O.P. Economic Meltdown Timeline
Colonial Times - 1600 to 1770
Plimoth Plantation 'living museum' [est. 1947] in Massachussets
Mayflower II replica ship [built 1957] based at Plimoth Plantation
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia Historic District [est. 1926]
Historic Jamestowne, Virginia
official website
National Park
Wikipedia
Jamestown Settlement
 | "La Salle and The Discovery of The Great West" [1869] by Francis Parkman [1823-93] French explorer Renι-Robert Cavelier de La Salle embarked from the Fort Wayne, Indiana area on a journey to the mouth of the Mississippi River; he arrived at the Gulf of Mexico on 9 April 1682 and claimed the entire Mississipi River Valley for King Louis of France. New American Library mass pb [1962] out of print/used Nabu Press 9¾x7½ facsimile pb [4/2010] for $29.75 BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [11/2009] for $32.99 |
 | "Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony" [1984] by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Rowman & Littlefield 8¾x5¾ pb [1/2007] for $14.28 Rowman & Littlefield 8½x5½ pb [7/91] for $16.46 Barnes & Noble hardcover [1993] out of print/used Rowman & Allanheld hardcover [7/84] out of print/used |
 | "The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke To James Towne - An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey" [1994] by Ivor Noλl Hume
the author was chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg for 35 years Univ VA Press 9x6¼ pb [10/97] for $17.21 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [9/94] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Colonial America On Film and Television: A Filmography" [2000] by Bertil O. Φsterberg McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [5/2009] for $49.95 McFarland & Co. 10¼x7 hardcover [12/2000] for $75.00 |
 | "Mayflower 1620: A New Look At A Pilgrim Voyage" [ages 9-12; 2003] by staff of Plimoth Plantation & National Geographic Magazine largely photographs of a voyage of the Mayflower II replica ship off the Atlantic coast of Virginia in June 2001 National Geographic Children's Books pb [9/2007] for $6.95 National Geographic Children's Books 11¼x8¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $14.00 |
 | "The Island At The Center of The World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America" [2004] by Russell Shorto Vintage 8x5 pb [4/2005] for $10.66 Doubleday 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2004] out of print/many used |
 | "The Lost Colony Of Roanoke" [ages 9-12; 2004] by Jean Fritz, Illustrated by Hudson Talbott Putnam Juvenile 10¼x8¼ hardcover [5/2004] for $13.86 |
 | "The War That Made America: The Story of The French and Indian War" [P.B.S./W.Q.E.D. Jan 2006] Co-produced, written & co-directed by Ben Loeterman & Eric Stange; hosted by Graham Greene, starring Larry Nehring, Alex Coleman, Chris Davenport, Ed Brigadier, Kevin McClatchy, Jeff Monahan, Anne Harsch & Shane Callahan P.B.S. 4-hour color DVD [2/2006] 2 disks for $29.99 Valley soundtrack CD [1/2006] for $16.98 full credits at IMDb official movie site |
 | "The Jamestown Project" [2007] by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Belknap Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $19.77 |
 | "Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America" [2007] by Peter Silver Princeton historian Silver asks how the diverse immigrants from Europe - Germans, Quakers, Dutch, Moravians, Englishmen, Spanish, and French - managed to live side by side, and his answer is that they were solidified into a single people - the 'whites' - in the 1750s by the fear of attack by the various Indian tribes. Book won the Bancroft Prize. W.W. Norton & Co. 8x5½ pb [8/2009] for $13.02 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2007] for $29.95 |
 | "Before The Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts" [2011] by Daniel K. Richter Belknap / Harvard 9x6 hardcover [4/2011] for $23.10 |
http://www.amazon.com/Roanoke-Solving-Mystery-Lost-Colony/dp/0142002283/
http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Frontier-America-Western-History/dp/0300059175/
http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Ship-Human-History/dp/0143114255/
http://www.amazon.com/Pursuits-Happiness-Development-Colonies-Formation/dp/0807842273/
http://www.amazon.com/Roanoke-Island-Beginnings-English-America/dp/0807841102/
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Devils-Empire-Colonial-Orleans/dp/0226138429/
http://www.amazon.com/1607-New-Look-at-Jamestown/dp/1426300123/
http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Strange-Tragic-History-Roanoke/dp/0465004857/
http://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-1620-Look-Pilgrim-Voyage/dp/079226276X/
Susan Whitehurst's lavishly illustrated The Mayflower (PowerKids, 2003) is briefer
Revolutionary Times - 1770 to 1800
 Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776 11"x17" sepia poster from Amazon for $4.99 18"x24" parchment poster from Amazon for $14.95 |  U.S Constitution 17 September 1787 24"x36" poster from Amazon for $28.95 18"x24" parchment poster from Amazon for $14.95 |  U.S Bill of Rights approved 25 September 1789; ratified 15 December 1791 14"x16" poster from Amazon for $12.00 18"x24" parchment poster from Amazon for $14.95 |
U.S. Constitution entry at Wikipedia
U.S. Constitution at National Archives website
Declaration of Independence entry at Wikipedia
Declaration of Independence at National Archives website
Bill of Rights entry at Wikipedia
Bill of Rights at National Archives website
Spirit of America's Founding Fathers Page
 | "The Ideological Origins of The American Revolution: Enlarged Edition" [1967 classic] by Bernard Bailyn "a classic of American historical literature"; winner of Pulitzer & Bancroft Prizes Belknap Press 8x5½ pb [3/92] for $20.95 Belknap Press hardcover [12/67] out of print/used |
 | "The Creation of The American Republic, 1776-1787" [1969 classic] by Gordon S. Wood "One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution." — The New York Times Book Review Univ NC Press 9x6 pb [4/98] for $24.69 Univ NC Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] out of print/used |
 | "TIME Magazine Special Bicentennial Issue, Sept. 26, 1789" [1989] Edited by Harry Antole Grunewald TIME Magazine 11x8½ hardcover [1989] out of print/used |
 | "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" [1991] by Pulitzer-winner Gordon S. Wood Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/93] for $12.21 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [12/91] out of print/many used |
 | "The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, A Revolutionary War Patriot (My Name Is America Series)" [ages 9-12; 1998] by Barry Denenberg
A year-long journal of a fictional 12-year-old orphan in Boston, Massachussets Colony Scholastic Inc. 7½x5¼ hardcover [9/98] out of print/dozens used |
 | "Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776" animated TV series [DiC Ent. 2002-2003] 40-episode color half-hour TV series intended to teach 7- to 14-year-olds about the events of the American Revolution; main characters are Ben Franklin {voice of Walter Cronkite}, British teen Sarah, French orphan Henri, teen printer's apprentice James, and adult freed slave Moses. Starring Kathleen Barr, Reo Jones, Chris Lundquist & D. Kevin Williams; celebrity voices include Annette Bening, Warren Buffett (as James Madison}, Walter Cronkite, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Horse, Liam Neeson, Tom Poston, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Norman Schwarzkopf, Maria Shriver, Sylvester Stallone (as Paul Revere}, Ben Stiller & Michael York Cookie Jar / Shout! Factory color DVD set [10/2008] 6 disks for $42.49 full credits at IMDb official series site series entry at Wikipedia |
 | "1776" [2005] by David McCullough S&S 9¼x6 pb [6/2006] for $10.80 S&S hardcover [5/2005] for $21.12 S&S UNABR audio CD [5/2005] for $31.47 |
 | "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different" [New York Times bestseller 2006] by Pulitzer-winner Gordon S. Wood Penguin 8¼x5½ pb [5/2007] for $10.88 Penguin Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2006] out of print/many, many used |
 | "The Mini Page Guide To The Constitution" [2006] by Betty Debnam 32-page Kindle Edition from Andrews McMeel Publng [7/2013] for $2.51 32-page Andrews McMeel Publng pb [9/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers" [2006] by Brooke Allen Ivan R. Dee pb [10/2007] for $14.95 Ivan R. Dee 8½x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.72 |
 | "The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel" [2008] by David Liss Down-on-his-luck former U.S. spy Ethan Saunders lost his true love to a successful Philadelphia businessman; when the man disappears, the wife asks Saunders to find him. Ballantine Books 8x5¼ pb [6/2009] for $10.80 Random House deckle-edge hardcover [9/2008] for $17.16 Whiskey Rebellion [1791-94] entry at Wikipedia Bank Panic of 1792 entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Why The Constitution Matters" [2010] by Mark Tushnet {law professor at Harvard University} Yale Univ Press 7¾x5½ pb [5/2010] for $16.50 |
 | "The Idea of America: Reflections On The Birth of The United States" [2011] by Pulitzer-winner Gordon S. Wood Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2011] for $17.82 |
 | "West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776" [2014] by Claudio Saunt Author examines nine regions of North America and the impact during 1776 of the various confrontations of Native American groups with Europeans. Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [6/2014] for $12.99 W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5¼ pb [DUE July 2015] for $16.10 W.W. Norton & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2014] for $19.53 |
 | "When The United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped A Nation" [2014] by Franηois Furstenberg
Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [7/2014] for $18.99 Penguin Books 8¼x5¼ pb [DUE June 2015] pre-order for $14.56 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2014] for $25.26 |
Manifest Destiny - 1800 to 1860
Oregon Trail Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
America's Mountain Men Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
 | "The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History" [1965] by J. Mackay Hitsman, updated by Donald E. Graves "The finest one-volume history of the War of 1812 ever published." Robin Brass Studio 9x6 pb [9/2000] for $16.88 |
 | "1812: War With America" [2007] by Jon Latimer Belknap Press 15½x9¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.10 |
 | "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" [2007] by Daniel Walker Howe book won Pulitzer Prize for History Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2009] for $12.14 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¾ hardcover [10/2007] for $23.10 |
 | "The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies" [2010] by Alan Taylor, who has won both the Bancroft & Pulitzer Prize for History After the Americans and the British fought to a standstill, they concluded that they could safely share the continent along a defined border; both sides then celebrated victory by forgiving and forgetting, and by betraying the native peoples. Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [10/2010] for $13.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/2011] for $12.24 Knopf 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [10/2010] for $23.10 |
 | "1812: The Navy's War" [2011] by George C. Daughan Basic Books 9½x6 hardcover [10/2011] for $21.45 |
"Northwest Passage" [bestseller 1937 novel] by Kenneth Roberts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage_(novel)
"Northwest Passage" [1940 feature film] starring Spencer Tracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage_(1940_film)
U.S. Civil War & Reconstruction - 1860 to 1875
Post-Civil War Era - 1875 to 1900
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"Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and The Adversary Tradition" [1983] by John L. Thomas
George's "Progress and Poverty", Bellamy's "Looking Backward", and Lloyd's "Wealth Against Commonwealth" each in its turn became an international best-seller, championing a national policy of social reform and speaking out for community values, international peace, and the goals of brotherhood and interdependence Belknap Press 9½x6½ hardcover [1/83] for $49.00 |
 | "American Politics In The Gilded Age, 1868-1900" [1997] by Robert W. Cherny Harlan Davidson 8x5½ pb [6/97] for $19.95 |
 | "Death In The Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, The First Labor Movement & The Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America" [2006] by James Green Anchor 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $10.85 Pantheon 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $18.60 |
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