Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Montcalm and Wolfe
The Riveting Story of the Heroes of the French & Indian War (A Modern Library E-Book)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The result of over forty years of passionate research, Montcalm and Wolfe is the epic story of Europe's struggle for dominance of the New World. Centuries of rivalry and greed between the great imperial powers culminated in five brutal years of war; resulted in the death of both generals, Louis de...
by B J Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
A brief biographic sketch of the leader of the Jamestown colony. This sketch covers his capture and slavery to the struggles with the native Americans.
Tobacco
A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty” (Los Angeles Times).
Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began...
by Robert W. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
But from the flames of Poundridge town ablaze, to the rolling smoke of Catharines-town, Romance but limps along a trail hewed out for her more dainty feet by History, and measured inch by inch across the bloody archives of the nation.
The Strength of a People
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in...
by Linai T. Helm, Nelly Kinzie Gordon, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Introduction
Judge Woodward's Letter to Colonel Proctor
Lieutenant Helm's Letter to Judge Woodward
Lieutenant Helm's Narrative
The Massacre at Chicago
John Kinzie
The Capture by the Indians of Little Eleanor Lytle
Under Household Government
Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The Puritans were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many early American historians would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals that family members took on the role of watchdogs in matters of sexual indiscretion.
by Carl Ubbelohde
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system.
Originally...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The weather is starting to get very cold. It is December of 1607, and Captain John Smith is one of the men who are in charge of the Jamestown colony. Things are not going well. They have been in America for about eight months, and winter is almost here. Even so, they have hardly any food, their living...
by William Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina is an account by William Byrd II of the surveying of the border between the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia in 1728. Byrd's account of the journey to survey the contentious border with his chief surveyor William Mayo included...
The Birth of the Nation (Illustrated Edition)
Jamestown, 1607
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Jamestown was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as capital of Virginia. This book follows the first steps English settlers made in the New World. It contains plenty of legendary and historical information related to the arrival and first landing to America.
by Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian, and hes considered one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work...
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth...
The Dove Shall Fly
a Texas Revolution novel, sequel to Bones at Goliad
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century
Texas. …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.
—Kirkus Reviews
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In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing...