Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Seed of a Nation
Rediscovering America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“Anyone who is losing hope for America must read The Seed of a Nation. The inspiration lives, the seed sprouts, the idea works” (Scott W. Boyd, Pennsylvania State Representative).
“The Seed of a Nation is a thoroughly researched and fascinating account of William Penn’s efforts to establish...
Heroes of the Acadian Resistance
The Story of Joseph (Beausoleil) Broussard and Pierre Surette 1702-1765
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and deportation.
Their battle...
Time Full of Trial
The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In February 1862, General Ambrose E. Burnside led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Roanoke Island. As word spread that the Union army had established a foothold in eastern North Carolina, slaves from the surrounding area streamed across Federal lines seeking freedom. By early 1863, nearly...
The Ordeal of the Longhouse
The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century...
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
The American Portraits Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British...
A Land As God Made It
Jamestown and the Birth of America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history
Although it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous...
A Voyage to Virginia in 1609
Two Narratives: Strachey's "True Reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume’s two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events’ even greater...
Half Moon
Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map.
Hudson...
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...
by Donald Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores, and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility, merchants factors, and land speculators herded sickly throngs aboard, betting that the purchase...
The Birth of African-American Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
by Andrew Blackbird
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
**From the intro: **
"Andrew J. Blackbird, the author of this little book, is an educated Indian, son of the Ottawa Chief. His Indian name is Mack-aw-de-be-nessy (Black Hawk), but he generally goes by the name of "Blackbird," taken from the interpretation of the French...
Native Voices
Sources in the Native American Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Integrates Native American perspectives into American history Native Voices is a source reader that covers the entire span of Native American history. It offers documents for readers to evaluate the Native Voice across the American continent and in parts of Latin America. Each document sheds...
by René Chartrand
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Long before England established a serious presence in the New World, Spain had already established an overseas Empire. In North America, this included vast tracts of territory including most of what today comprises the states of Florida, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Illinois and California....