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Colonial Triangular Trade: An Economy Based on Human Misery
by Phyllis Rabin Emert

By the 1780s, about 97,000 slaves a year were being sent to the Americas on more than 800 slave ships.  Most went from Africa to…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-48-6     Price: 7.95     63 pages, paperback

9781579600570

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
by Wim Coleman

Accounts of Shays’ Rebellion, the Articles of Confederation, the call for a Federal Convention, key excerpts from the Virginia Plan, and notes recorded by James…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-057-0     Price: 7.95     68 pages, paperback

9781579600471

Crime and Punishment: The Colonial Period to the New Frontier
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman

Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass’ popular Perspectives on History series.  This volume introduces criminal justice in the American…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-047-1     Price: 7.95     68 pages, paperback

9781579600242

The Declaration of Independence
by Wim Coleman

Excerpts from the works of John Locke, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and others provide an in-depth look at ideas on slavery, government, liberty,…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-024-2     Price: 7.95     64 pages, paperback

The Shot Heard ‘Round the World: The Beginnings of the American Revolution
by Jeanne Munn Bracken

The beginnings of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord come alive through personal narratives from participants and observers and through primary sources representing British…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-32-5     Price: 7.95     64 pages, paperback

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America’s Founders
by Pat Perrin

Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source documents underpin the introduction to U.S. history in History Compass’ popular Researching American History series. This volume introduces our…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-097-6     Price: $8.95     Paperback, 52 pages

9781579600697

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights (2nd ed.)
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights presents the foundation documents for the United States government, as told through the original documents and words of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-11-2     Price: 8.95     56 pages, paperback

9781579600700

The Declaration of Independence
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman

Through letters, speeches, political tracts, and summaries of the document text, this volume provides insight into the Declaration of Independence, the principles that underpin it,…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-070-9     Price: 8.95     54 pages, paperback

9781579600611

The Revolutionary War
by Pat Perrin

Through primary sources and background material, readers learn the causes and course of the Revolutionary War and the American victory and about the writing of…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-061-7     Price: $8.95     56 pages, paperback

A Dangerous Search: Black Patriots in the American Revolution. Book 1 – From Lexington to Bunker Hill
by Nancy I. Sanders

Based on actual events in the Revolutionary War and some of the African-American men who shaped those events, A Dangerous Search tells the story of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-22-8     Price: 7.95     103 pages, paperback