Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by John Wilson Foster
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story of a collapse into extinction so startling as to provoke a mystery. In the fate of the North American passenger pigeon we can read much of the story of wild America—the astonishment...
by Stanley Finger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the...
Le procès des sorcières de Salem
Quand le diable colonise l'Amérique
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les sorcières de Salem en moins d’une heure !1692. Un vent de panique s’engouffre dans les demeures des habitants de Salem Village, en plein cœur du Massachusetts. Deux fillettes, bientôt suivies par d’autres, sont sujettes à des crises de convulsions....
Le Mayflower, cap sur le Nouveau Monde
Le mythe fondateur des États-Unis
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le Mayflower et le mythe fondateur des États-Unis en moins d’une heure !16 septembre 1620. Dans le port de Southampton, un navire s’apprête à partir qui changera l’histoire à jamais. Le Mayflower, avec à son bord une centaine d’émigrants...
An Infinity of Nations
How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard....
Historic Highways of America
Volume 6: Boone's Wilderness Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old...
Lenape Country
Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their...
Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe
Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by William Apes, an Indian and Preacher of the Gospel 1835
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
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For a long time the Indians had been disaffected, but no one was energetic enough among them to combine them in taking measures for their rights. Every time they had petitioned the Legislature, the laws, by the management of the interested whites, had been made more severe against them....
by Katherine Grandjean
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information—who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.
This Land Is Their Land
The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin...
by Everett T. Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Perhaps not unnaturally in certain details there is a slight confusion or divergence in the various works that recount the heroic deeds of Daniel Boone. The men of that day were making history rather than recording what they did. There is, however, a striking uniformity in all the records as to the...
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 Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging...
by Thomas Hariot
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
'SIR, seeing that the parte of the Worlde, which is betwene the FLORIDA and the Cap BRETON nowe nammed VIRGINIA, to the honneur of yours most souueraine Layde and Queene ELIZABETZ, hath ben descouuerd by yours meanes. And great chardges. And that your Collonye hath been theer established to your great honnor and prayse, and noelesser proffit vnto the common welth.