In 1771, at the age of 65, Benjamin Franklin sat down to write his autobiography, having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity. The result is a classic of American literature.

In this account of the Seven Years' War, Fred Anderson demonstrates that the conflict was more than just a peripheral squabble that anticipated the American Revolution, changing the character of British Imperialism with the mother country trying to reshape terms of empire and the colonists' place.

Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.

Bailyn has added an essay Fulfillment to the original text as a postscript. Here he discusses the debate on the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.

This work looks at the question of why women were likely witches in the late 1600s. The author reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society.

An overview of slavery in America in the period between 1619 and 1877. From its origins in the colonial era, the book explores racial attitudes and the development of the social structures of the old South, the characteristics of slave culture and finally the road to abolition.