Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes an original introduction and biography for each Founding Father*Includes pictures of the Founding Fathers and important people, places and events in their lives.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of...
Big Chief Elizabeth
The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought...
by The Editors of REA
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Interactive Flashcard books represent a novel approach which combines the merits of flash cards with the ease of using a book. One side of each page includes questions to be answered, with space for writing in one’s answers — a feature not usually found on flash cards. The flip side of the...
by J T Headley
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
A short history of the siege of Detroit by Pontiac, chief of the Ottawas, as he banded together diverse tribes to try to stave off the inevitable English onslaught.
The Loyalists
Revolution Exile Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were called Loyalists – and there would be no place for them in the new United States.
As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face...
by Samuel Adams Drake, Walter K. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
I. Upon the Tavern as an Institution
II. The Earlier Ordinaries
III. In Revolutionary Times
IV. Signboard Humor
V. Appendix; Boston Taverns to the Year 1800
VI. Cole’s Inn
VII. The Bakers’ Arms
VIII. The Golden Ball Tavern
IX. The Hancock Tavern
X. List of Taverns and Tavern Owners
The Jamestown Experiment
The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The American dream was built along the banks of the James River in Virginia.
The settlers who established America's first permanent English colony at Jamestown were not seeking religious or personal freedom. They were comprised of gentlemen adventurers and common tradesmen who risked their...
A Tale of Two Colonies
What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown.John Smith fought to keep order, battling both English and Indians. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Surviving accounts of the “Starving Time” differ,...
by George Francis Dow, John Henry Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
"Why did men go a-pirating, or 'on the account' as the pirates called it? The sailors said it was few ships and many men, hard work and small pay, long voyages, bad food and cruel commanders." — IntroductionWhatever their reasons, large numbers of pirates plied the waters off the coast of New England...
The French and Indian War
Deciding the Fate of North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the...
Pen and Ink Witchcraft
Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,...
Entertaining Satan
Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during...
Six Women of Salem
The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who...
The Salem Witch Trials
A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Based on over twenty years of original archival research, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the Salem Witch Trials as the citizens of Salem experienced the outbreak of hysteria.