1775-1865

New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.

Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.

Examines the extent to which a sense of American nationalism existed before the Civil War, and describes the differences between Northern and Southern nationalism.

A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, including two who were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.

Tells the story of the movement that led to Confederate independence from the perspectives of five Southern men who came to their own individual decisions to abandon the Union.

Discusses the early history of Maine beginning with the Native Americans who have lived there for five thousand years, through European exploration and settlement, to statehood in 1820.

Presents an overview of the history of the early American colony of New York, using primary source materials, with information on its founding, settlement, growth as a colony, and role in the American Revolution.