Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books

• illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE European Background and Indian Counterpart to Virginia Medicine CHAPTER TWO Disease and The Critical Years At Jamestown CHAPTER THREE Prevalent Ills and Common Treatments CHAPTER FOUR Education, Women, Churchmen, and The Law CHAPTER FIVE Conclusion

The Charter of 1606, also known as the First Charter of Virginia, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the stated purpose of propagating the Christian religion. The land is described as coastal Virginia and islands near to the coast,...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims,...

Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's...

In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of...

Years of British-led failures have taken its toll on Jacob Murray. Standing alone amidst the aftermath of yet another unfathomable defeat, his thoughts turn north to his wife Maggie and the perilous gulf of wilderness that stands between them like the French abbitas at Fort Carillon. He would pack his...

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...

According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean...

The Fox family history follows 12 generations of the Fox Family from England to America.  This American line lived in South Carolina.  

This FORBES family starts in 1100 Scotland and goes to Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Memphis, Tennessee.  They migrated to America in the 1740's.    Join me in discovering 26 generations on this Forbes family line.     This history is full of interesting Revolutionary War soldiers, a story of a scalping by Indians and real Scottish royalty who lived in real castles.     

This particular Perkins family line goes back an amazing forty nine generations.   My  humble family line from West Tennessee who were small farmers actually came from ancient Kings and Queens of France and England.   Follow the journey from the year 600 AD and this family's journey from Germany,...

Richard Price was a loyal, although dissenting, subject of Great Britain who thought the British treatment of their colonies as wrong, not only prudentially, financially, economically, militarily, and politically, but, above all, morally wrong. He expressed these views in his first pamphlet early...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the...