Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Historic Highways of America
Volume 7: Portage Paths - The Key to the Continent
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...
by John Dickinson, R.T.H. Halsey, Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Introduction Notes Letter I Letter II Letter III Letter IV Letter V ...
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...
Historic Highways of America
Volume 8: Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin
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...
The Mother of George Washington and her Times
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
The mothers of famous men survive only in their sons. This is a rule almost as invariable as a law of nature. Whatever the aspirations and energies of the mother, memorable achievement is not for her. No memoir has been written in this country of the women who bore, fostered, and trained our great...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The charter of Massachusetts Bay was one of the New Worlds first attempts to establish self-government in the English colonies of North America. In this case, the Massachusetts Bay Company, a joint-stock company resident in England, whose membership included merchants and landed gentry, received a charter...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
David Hume (7 May 1711 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Miles Standish is a biography of the famous pilgrim.
by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
The mothers of famous men survive only in their sons. This is a rule almost as invariable as a law of nature. Whatever the aspirations and energies of the mother, memorable achievement is not for her. No memoir has been written in this country of the women who bore, fostered, and trained our great...
by Stephen Vincent Benet
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This narrative poem on the settling of the United States was awarded the Pulitzer Price posthumously in 1944. We are republishing this classic works with a new additional biography of the author. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best...
History of the Mayflower Voyage and the Destiny of Its Passengers
Including Mayflower Ship's Log, History of Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. There were 102 passengers. The culmination of the voyage in the signing of the Mayflower Compact was an event which established a rudimentary...
by Earle
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows.
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting house, but...
Historic Highways of America
Volume 4: Braddock's Road (And three relative Papers)
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 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...
Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma of Nova Scotia's Oak Island. In this new edition of their book, they set out the previously unknown story of how complex and expensive engineering work was undertaken to create an elaborate flood tunnel...