Books like Indians and English by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Daniel K. Richter brings Native peoples to the center of early American history, showing how they shaped, resisted, and were ultimately displaced during the long process that created the United States.

Sir Walter Raleigh’s ill‑fated Roanoke colonists and their encounters with Native Americans unfold in Giles Milton’s well‑researched narrative that spans English exploration, the mysterious disappearance of early settlers, and Elizabeth I’s legendary title, "Big Chief."

David E. Stannard examines the 400‑year assault on Native peoples of North and South America, arguing that European colonization and later American expansion constituted the world’s largest genocide.

Raphael explains the central purpose of his "people's history" thusly: "By uncovering the stories of farmers, artisans, and laborers, we discern how plain folk helped create a revolution strong enough to evict the British Empire from the thirteen colonies. And by digging deeper still, we learn how people with no political standing -- women, Native Americans, African Americans -- altered the shape of a war conceived by others." After carefully reconstructing the histories of all these groups, he concludes: "The story of our nation's founding, told so often from the perspective of the 'founding fathers,' will never ring true unless it can take some account of the Massachusetts farmers who closed the courts, the poor men and boys who fought the battles, the women who followed the troops, the loyalists who viewed themselves as rebels, the pacifists who refused to sign oaths of allegiance, the Native Americans who struggled for their own independence, the southern slaves who fled to the British, the northern slaves who negotiated their freedom by joining the Continental Army". Raphael's account rings true: these people made the American Revolution. - Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh.

ix, 430 pages : 23 cm

Kathleen DuVal places indigenous peoples at the center of early North American history, showing how Indians—not Europeans—shaped the relations along the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers during the colonial era.

An overview of Native American life, highlighting how tribes preserved culture through arts, customs, languages, and religion despite European contact.

"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.