Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Missionary Bishop
Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
In 1822 a young French missionary priest arrived in America, where he would devote the rest of his life to the mission field on behalf of the Catholic Church. Jean-Marie Odin served first in Missouri and Arkansas, then in 1840 moved to Texas, becoming the first Bishop of Galveston in 1847. He held...
by Ethan A.. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
There has not been an all-encompassing narrative of the Native American experience during the American Revolutionary War period—until now. Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World fills that gap in the literature,...
Young Benjamin Franklin
The Birth of Ingenuity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.
From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has...
by Dr. Alexander Hamilton.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Alexander Hamilton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland; graduated in 1737 from medical school and immigrated to Maryland in 1739. During this time colonial America was an evolving society. The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is a primary source from which we gain insight to the societies and towns...
Young Washington
How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria
Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed,...
The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants
to the American Colonies or the United States Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History. With a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Addition.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Once again Gary Boyd Roberts has assembled all recent royal descent research, some yet unpublished, and produced an authoritative, up-to-date compendium. In this 2008 edition, he has added twenty-eight new immigrants, so that with a few disproofs (Curwens/Corwins of Massachusetts and New York, Byes ofPennsylvania,...
Crucible of War
The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed...
Good Wives
Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional...
by Warren Curtis Riess, Sheli O. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship.
Uncertain of what they had found or what its value might be, they called in two nautical archaeologists—Warren Riess and Sheli...
by David J. Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.
Breaking Loose Together
The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the...
Roanoke
Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115...
The Glorious Cause:The American Revolution, 1763-1789
The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing...
The Mayflower Papers
Selected Writings of Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used...