Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots, 1722-1793
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, England declared war on Spain and he was recalled to Antigua to join his regiment. His wife in poor health, he left his daughter Eliza, 17, in charge of his three...
Foul Means
The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class,...
Voices Out of Slavery
23 First-Hand Accounts of American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
VOICES OUT OF SLAVERY is a collection of twenty-three slave narratives dating from the early 1700s to the 1860s. All of these first-hand accounts of slavery provide valuable insight into the everyday lives of slaves, as well as incredible and disturbing descriptions of kidnappings, torture,...
America's Hidden History
Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths...
Jefferson's Demons
Portrait of a Restless Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.
Not...
The Rainborowes
One Family's Quest to Build a New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decades witnessed the birth of New England and, in the mother country, a chaotic civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. At the center of this turbulent time...
by David D. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution.
Distinguished historian David D. Hall looks afresh at how the colonists...
Embodied History
The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts...
Benedict Arnold's Navy
The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
An epic story of one man’s devotion to the American cause
In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American...
We Mean to Be Counted
White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed
the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded...
Mortal Remains
Death in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars...
Banished
Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony....
Ordinary Courage
The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents to emerge from the tumult of America’s Revolutionary War. The ordinary and yet exceptional experiences of a young soldier in Washington’s army are given a new life in this fourth edition, sensitively edited for a modern readership.
Classic...
by David Loades, Mei Trow
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
This entertaining guide covers the period from 1485 to 1603, exploring the life and times of everyday people (from famine and the flu epidemic, to education, witchcraft and William Shakespeare) as well as the intrigues and scandals at court. Strap yourself in and get ready for a rollercoaster ride...