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Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the isl……続きを見る

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literatureーin……続きを見る

Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Sa……続きを見る

In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to b……続きを見る

From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and libe……続きを見る

*Includes some of Adams's most famous quotes. *Includes pictures of Adams and important people, places, and events in his life. *Analyzes and explains Adams's controversial reputation and legacy.*In……続きを見る

Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were ……続きを見る

William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two volumes of America: The Last Best Hope. While national test scores reveal that American students know startlingly little about their h……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

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 storyt……続きを見る

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutiona……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS Introduction Judge Woodward's Letter to Colonel Proctor Lieutenant Helm's Letter to Judge Woodward Lieutenan……続きを見る

In this fascinating social history of America’s first frontier, Charles Clark brings to life the people and settlements of Maine and New Hampshire before the Revolutionary War. He describes what lif……続きを見る

In April 1849, seventy-six slaves - all household servants in Washington, D.C. - made a run for freedom on the schooner The Pearl. The escape was planned in part by Paul Jennings, a slave of Preside……続きを見る

One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule,……続きを見る

Susan Castillo’s pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or ‘multi-voiced’ texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigeno……続きを見る

This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620 as Pilgrim representatives sign a contract to purchase the freighter Mayflower. We accompany them on their harrowing voyage across the Atlanti……続きを見る

An Open Door of Liberty is about how religious freedom came to be an important part of the basic law of the United States. There has been much discussion and some controversy over the years as to wh……続きを見る

The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his fathe……続きを見る

Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career a……続きを見る

Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. ……続きを見る

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut may seem like a quirky name, but behind it is the first written constitution in the history of the West. In 1635 a group of Massachusetts Puritans and Congregat……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE I. GENESIS OF ENGLISH COLONIZATION (1492-1579) II. GILBERT AND RALEIG……続きを見る

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface Introduction I. Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography II. The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors III. The Politics of……続きを見る

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Uni……続きを見る

“Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans’s first century.” ーJonathan Yardley, Washington Post This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, w……続きを見る

This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United ……続きを見る

As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have……続きを見る

"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is bor……続きを見る

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 le……続きを見る