Happy Thanksgiving. How much do you really know about the early years of America's formation?

Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel Philbrick

The pox and the covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the epidemic that changed America's destiny by Tony Williams

Patriot pirates: the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution by Robert H. Patton

American tempest: how the Boston Tea Party sparked a revolution by Harlow Giles Unger

Thanksgiving: the American holiday by Laurie Collier Hillstrom