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In "The Founding of New England," James Truslow Adams meticulously chronicles the early settlement of New England, offering a nuanced exploration of the social, political, and religious motivations ……続きを見る

In "Home Life in Colonial Days," Alice Morse Earle meticulously reconstructs the domestic experiences of American colonists, providing a rich tapestry of daily life during a pivotal era. Through her……続きを見る

In "The Old Franciscan Missions Of California," George Wharton James transports readers to the spiritual and cultural landscape of 18th and 19th century California. This meticulously researched work……続きを見る

In "The New English Canaan," Thomas Morton presents a fascinating examination of life in 17th-century New England, infused with a rich tapestry of personal narrative, satirical commentary, and anthr……続きを見る

In "The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara," E. Cruikshank meticulously chronicles the formation of Butler's Rangers, a Loyalist militia during the American Revolutionary War, a……続きを見る

In "Boone's Wilderness Road," Archer Butler Hulbert meticulously chronicles the path forged by the legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone through the Appalachian wilderness. This historical narrative i……続きを見る

In "A Character of the Province of Maryland," George Alsop offers a compelling account of the early colonial experience in Maryland, capturing the social, cultural, and economic dynamics of the 17th……続きを見る

In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge soci……続きを見る

The pre-Revolutionary War period in the British colonies was a tumultuous time during which the wealthy cand their compromised religions fought against the Revolutionary ideals of the American Enlig……続きを見る

Dive into the Early Life of Thomas Jefferson: Uncover the Childhood, Influences, and Journey to Adulthood of America's Founding Father. Experience a unique journey into the early life of Thomas Jeff……続きを見る

More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Is……続きを見る

By: Carroll T. Bond, Pub. 1933, reprinted, 2022, 724 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-049-7. This book is a MUST for those doing research in the state of Maryland during this colonial tim……続きを見る

On December 1st, 1784, along a cold and wintry Fourth Street in Philadelphia, Major William Trent sputtered his last breath surrounded by friends and family and soon became forgotten in history. The……続きを見る

'A masterly analysis of slavery and republicanism from the left. A stunning achievement' Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776 'In explaining the role of self-interest in the abolit……続きを見る

THE TRUTH WILL ENDURE. IT MUST. But our history is in danger of being rewritten by the progressive left and the “woke” mob. In PROFILES IN FREEDOM: HEROES WHO SHAPED AMERICA , Carl Higbie shines a l……続きを見る

Past and present collide in this page-turning investigation into Salem's irrepressible question: how could this have happened? In 1692, Martha Allen Carrier was hanged in the Salem witch trials as t……続きを見る

Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War. Modern readers of history and biography unite around a ……続きを見る

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesーfrom diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons……続きを見る

Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his dangerous thoughts on religious liberty. But the city and colony Williams helped to fo……続きを見る

The long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a “truly subversive graphic novel” and “a da……続きを見る

"[A] well-written exploration of the cultural and legal meanings of slave suicide in British North America . . . far-reaching, compelling, and relevant." ー Choice The history of slavery in early Am……続きを見る

Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city taverns" to seedy "disorderly houses," urban taverns were whol……続きを見る

Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily me……続きを見る

Headlines declare after each new hint of evidence that the Lost Colony--the English colonists left on Roanoke Island in 1587, including Virginia Dare--has been found. None of these claims pass muste……続きを見る

USA Today Bestseller Timed for the 250th anniversary of America’s revolution and founding: Paul Revere’s heroic ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the story Americans ……続きを見る

In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from E……続きを見る

Here is a virtually complete list of persons identifiable as Jews in America by 1800, the result of a thorough search of manuscript materials and published literature for the names of Jews who lived……続きを見る

Otis Rice tells the dramatic story of how the first state beyond the mountains came into being. Kentucky dates its settled history from the founding of Harrodsburg in 1774 and of Boonesborough in 17……続きを見る

When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the twentieth century, the L&N grew into o……続きを見る

An interdisciplinary excavation of colonoware as a material archive of African, Indigenous, and colonial entanglements across the early American South. In Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay, ……続きを見る