Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Journals of George Washington
Journey Over the Mountains in the Northern Virginia While Surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax & First Military Assignment Carrying a Letter From the Governor of Virginia to the French Commander
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The journals of young George Washington were written at the beginning of his military carrier. The books give us a marvelous insight of the atmosphere in the pre-revolution period in America. Apart from that significant value, these accounts reveal interesting details about Washington's daily life,...
Irreconcilable Differences
Profiles of the Founding Fathers 1750-1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Our Founding Fathers are the great men that won our independence, framed our founding documents, and set this nation in motion.
Discover who they were, what they believed, and why they were willing to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in pursuit of America’s potential....
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This bundle book is a compilation of four of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the second in a two-part volume.
The first volume presents the following subjects in an easy to understand format that kids love:
*Trail of Tears
*The Pony Express
*The Underground Railroad
*The California Gold Rush
by William Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1630 and 1647, the journal describes the...
Hodges' Scout
A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper reaches of the New York colony. Caught in a devastating ambush by French and native warriors, only a handful of colonials made it back alive. Toward the end of the French...
Lord Churchill's Coup
The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated...
by Peter Wilson Coldham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
This is a heroic attempt to bring together from English sources a complete list of immigrants to the New World from 1607 to 1660. No doubt records of passengers leaving for America were kept in this period, but while no systematic record has survived, the remaining records are substantial. Some were...
The Atlantic in Global History
1500-2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The Atlantic in Global History is a collection of original essays by leading authors that both introduce the main themes of Atlantic history and expand the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically.
Moving away from the nation-state focused model of Atlantic...
Historic Highways of America
Volume 9: Waterways of Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old...
Planting an Empire
The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America.
Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America before...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This bundle book is a compilation of four of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the first in a two-part volume.
The first volume presents the following subjects in an easy to understand format that kids love:
*Jamestown
*The Continental Convention
*The Louisiana Purchase
*The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and research volume. Warren Billings brings together more than 200 period documents, organized topically, with each chapter introduced by an interpretive essay. Topics include...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This bundle book is a compilation of three of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the first in a three-part volume.
The first volume presents the following wars in an easy to understand format that kids love:
*The American Revolution
*The Boston Tea Party
*The Civil War
Breaking the Bonds
Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
"In Breaking The Bonds, Merril Smith establishes the ambitious goal of determining 'what kind of problems arose in troubled marriages' and of analyzing 'how men and women coped with marital discord.' . . . To accomplish this, Smith studied hundreds of divorce petitions, other legal documents,...