Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Strategy Six Pack 13 (Illustrated)
Six Strategy Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
- Patrick Henry.
Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete...
Conquered into Liberty
Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between “North” and “South,” beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries,...
Braddock's Defeat
George Washington and the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
This is the story of one of the biggest Indian victories over whites in the history of North America. The French and many different Indian tribes decisively defeated a much larger British army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755 in western Pennsylvania, during the French and Indian War. Among the...
They Came for Freedom
The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history.
Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries...
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown
The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers
The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New...
The Mayflower
The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser . . . There is more to the Pilgrims’...
Mayflower
The Voyage That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
The little band of Puritan emigres that left Southampton in 1620 to found a godly colony in America had no inkling that they were the forerunners of the greatest feat of nation-building in the early modern world. In this book Christopher Hilton recreates the lives and aspirations of the Pilgrims,...
by Mary Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL II. THE ADVENTURERS III. JAMESTOWN IV. JOHN SMITH V. THE SEA ADVENTURE VI. SIR THOMAS DALE VII. YOUNG VIRGINIA VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENT IX. MARYLAND X. CHURCH AND KINGDOM XI. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION XII. NATHANIEL BACON XIII. REBELLION AND CHANGE XIV. THE CAROLINAS XV. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD XVI. GEORGIA
The First Thanksgiving
A Selection from Mayflower (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The real story of the First Thanksgiving from the New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick
One of America’s most acclaimed historians takes on the nation’s First Thanksgiving, telling us the true story behind the tale we think we know so well. In this selection from the New...
James Edward Oglethorpe
Foreword by Eugenia Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
James Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him stay unnoticed. As a member of Parliament in the eighteenth century, Oglethorpe fought for debtors?...
by John Austin Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A short piece that describes Old Time Taverns in New York city from the time of the founding by the Dutch to the American Revolution.
John Austin Stevens Jr. (1827–1910) was a leader of business, an adviser of government and a student of the American Revolution. His was the founder of the Sons of the Revolution.
by D. M. Kalten
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The horrid circumstances of the Mayflower pilgrims are shown in TIME LINE fashion making it easy to understand what they endured. This is not a biography for each passenger but people are noted if an event pertained directly to a person. You will find web links to follow to excellent sites that go...
by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This edition features illustrations.
Excerpt
The months just preceding the year 1676 were marked in Virginia by ominous signs of disaster. A great comet streamed through the sky "like a horsetail," and it was well known that that meant pestilence or war. Then came tens of thousands...
by Kate Caffrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest of living.
During the months-long journey, one Pilgrim...