Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1981
America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history.
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by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This educational resource will show your child the truths and myths about Trade and Tyranny: The Rise and Fall of Colonialism. This might not be an easy read because of the complexity of theories and jargons used. That’s why you should choose child-friendly materials that use a combination of pictures and texts. Go ahead and grab a copy today.
The Thirteen Colonies In The US : 3rd Grade US History Series
American History Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Use this book to take a ride back in time and learn about the 13 colonies that came into the shores of the US. Learning history has never been more engaging than this. Historical data are exquisitely presented with less words and more pictures in this child-friendly learning material. Buy a copy of this book today!
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's "city upon a hill," a shining example, a "city that cannot...
A Thyme to Discover
Early American Recipes for the Modern Table
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Experience the history of American cooking and cuisine with updated recipes from our nation’s past in “this fun, informative, appealing book” (Edible Cape Cod).
From their voyage on the Mayflower to the days of the American Revolution, early American settlers struggled to survive in the New...
Peaceable Kingdom Lost
The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with...
by John Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. An inclusive account of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes of that day,...
The Printer and the Preacher
Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the Surprising Friendship that Invented America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
They were the most famous men in America. They came from separate countries, followed different philosophies, and led dissimilar lives. But they were fast friends. No two people did more to shape America in the mid-1700s.
Benjamin Franklin was the American prototype: hard-working, inventive,...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. The Mayflower was the ship that launched a nation. She left from England in September of 1620, carrying 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit. These...
The Name of War
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indians—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific...
That Dark and Bloody River
Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
An epic novel by an award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable.
They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous,...
The Witches
Salem, 1692
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before...
Mayflower
A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
**"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year
How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed...
by Russell Shorto
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
**In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.
"Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we...