Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
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...
The Captives of Abb's Valley
A Legend of Frontier Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
In 1786, a party of Shawnee Indians attacked James Moore and his family in the remote Abb's Valley of Virginia.
The entire family was masacred except for two children, James and Mary. Their tale here was penned by the grandson James Moore Brown.
In Search of First Contact
The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the first known European narratives about contact...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine.
Features contributions...
The Puritans
A Sourcebook of Their Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture."
Beyond the Founders
New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks,...
Tobacco and Slaves
The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both...
by David Lavender
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
American history begins not with the English at Jamestown or the Pilgrims at Plymouth but with Spanish exploration of the border country from Florida to California in the 16th century. This handbook describes the expeditions of three intrepid explorers—De Soto, Coronado, and Cabrillo—their adventures,...
Decentering Discussions on Religion and State
Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume explores dynamic conversations through history between individuals and communities over questions about religion and state. Divided into two sections, our authors begin with considerations on the separation of religion and state, as well as Roger Williams’ concept of religious freedom....
Imperial Legacies
The British Empire Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Britain yesterday; America today.
The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes...
Education in the Forming of American Society
Needs and Opportunities for Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a pungent revision of the professional educator's school of history, Bailyn traces the cultural context of education in early American society and the evolution of educational standards in the colonies. His analysis ranges beyond formal education to encompass such vital social determinants as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand various reorderings of the...
by J S C Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This is a brief 19th century biographic sketch of the Life of Washington. Digitally restored illustrations.
by Samuel M. Smucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.