植民地時代

Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists and is still going strong....

America, the land of the free and home of the brave. How much do you know of the history of modern-day America? From its discovery by Columbus to its participation in World War 1 and 2 we can see that America has left its mark on the world....

A fascinating inquiry into an eighteenth-century life, Robert Rogers, Ranger presents American legend and commander of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War Robert Rogers as he lived, crossing the line between fame and misfortune.

Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the Post Office as America's own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries....

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than 46 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. Carp tells the full story, exploding myths....

Francis J. Bremer focuses on the role of religion in the settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced political, intellectual, and cultural aspects of New England life 150 years before the American Revolution....

Dive into a riveting exploration of one of history's most astonishing chapters – the audacious conquest of the Americas by a handful of daring conquistadors....

It should come as no surprise that it is much easier to overthrow a government than form a new one,and that in turn it is easier to form a government than to govern....

A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans....

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

The most important war for Texas came in the early 19th century, and the common story heard in America is about rebellion against intolerance, oppression and Mexican cruelty....

New Hampshire was founded through land grants issued to John Mason and Fernando Gorges in 1622....

Two classics of the American spirit together on audio for the first time....

Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant follows Franklin's remarkable career through the lens of the trends and innovations that the Protestant Reformation started (both directly and indirectly) almost two centuries earlier....

This compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure—in their own words The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the...

As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.

King Philip’s War was a conflict fought between English colonists and indigenous peoples in North America toward the end of the 17th century. Primarily, the clash occurred because the European migrants were encroaching on native land....

El 12 de octubre de 1492 el almirante Cristóbal Colón, al mando de tres navíos y un puñado de aventureros, soldados y clérigos, descubría la realidad de un nuevo continente que recibiría más tarde el nombre de América. Aquella tierra se convirtió de inmediato en el paraíso prometido...

Jules Drinkwater’s Empire’s Last Brew takes you on a wild journey through the dramatic and tumultuous eras where tea and coffee were far more than mere drinks—they were symbols of power, rebellion, and cultural identity.