Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Colin Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees?...
by David Dary
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic...
Encounters at the Heart of the World
A History of the Mandan People
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and...
Cartographic Encounters
Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
There’s no excuse for getting lost these days—satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America was largely undocumented, and expeditions like that...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
In April 1849, seventy-six slaves - all household servants in Washington, D.C. - made a run for freedom on the schooner The Pearl. The escape was planned in part by Paul Jennings, a slave of President James Madison during and after his White House years and who later became a servant to Senator Daniel...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This is a Summary of David McCullough’s John AdamsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.In this powerful, epic biography,...
Making Haste from Babylon
The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board...
Fish into Wine
The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery.
The unregulated English...
Acadian Redemption
From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation the first biography of an Acadian exile defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book tells of his early life events and militant struggles with the British...
1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
From the author of *1491—*the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other,...
by Joseph Howard Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Until 1997, author Joseph Howard Tyson did not know that he descended from Germantown's original settlers. This realization deepened his concern for Philadelphia and his appreciation of William Penn's legacy. During the past eight years, he has tried to view the city through Penn's eyes. Penn's Luminous...
by Sam Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Cast from their home country by religious intolerance, the Pilgrims' harrowing voyage to the New World was filled with hardships. But through it all they persisted, motivated by the promise of a better life in which they could gather and worship God in their own ways. A collection of ragtag ships...
Jefferson on Display
Attire, Etiquette, and the Art of Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
By attending closely to Jefferson’s controversial clothing choices and physical appearance, as well as to his use of portraiture, architecture, and the polite refinements of dining, grooming, and conversation, Wilson shows in fascinating detail how Jefferson's self-presentation served his political agenda.
New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the...