Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books

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Damned Nation

Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction

by Kathryn Gin Lum
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never...
Cover of American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
by Heather Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese...
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Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery

As Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States

by William A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

A complete record of the lectures on slavery in the United States of America delivered to the classes in Moral Science at the Randolph Macon College during the mid-nineteenth century, when abolitionism was at it’s height and before the American Civil War had begun. The premise of the lectures is that slavery is right, and is a fundamental principle of the social state.
Cover of The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005

"A masterly quarter-century of commentary on the discipline of American history."—Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review "This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy...
Cover of The United States Exploration Anthology

The United States Exploration Anthology

The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States

by John Abbott, David Thompson, Meriwether Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont.  It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume....
Cover of Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World
by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012

This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...
Cover of June (1776 Season 1 Episode 6)
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

This is the 6th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-episode serial by Serial Box in partnership with The Associated Press. They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood together...
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Race and the Early Republic

Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

by David Brion Davis, Lacy K. Ford Jr., Jon Gjerde
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001

By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic." Race and the...
Cover of August (1776 Season 1 Episode 8)
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018

This is the 8th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-episode serial by Serial Box in partnership with The Associated Press. They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood together...
Cover of The Journal of Major John André
by John André
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

The Journal of Major John André is the journal of the famous British spy who was caught attempting to assist Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War.
Cover of Inaugural Addresses: President George Washington's Inaugural Addresses (Illustrated Edition)
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
Cover of Inaugural Addresses: President George Washington's First Inaugural Address (Illustrated Edition)
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of...
Cover of Inaugural Addresses: President George Washington's Seecond Inaugural Address (Illustrated Edition)
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
Cover of The Journal of Major George Washington, 1754
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015

In 1753, the British and French found themselves engaged in a border dispute along the Ohio River near Pennsylvania. With the French building fortresses on land the British claimed as their own, the British authorities decided to step in by delivering a letter to the French demanding that they remove...
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