wired - Colonial Period (1600-1775) 1

Read 27 chilling, historically grounded stories about the real witch trials that terrorized New England in the 1600s. During a time already steeped in superstition, fear itself became the most dange……続きを見る

Millions of Americans encounter famous Founders' quotes every day, on posters, in political speeches, in textbooks, and across social media. Many of those quotes are fabrications. Others are real bu……続きを見る

The complete narrative history of the Salem witch trials ー mass hysteria, spectral evidence, 19 hangings, and the colonial Massachusetts community that destroyed itself in 1692. In late January 169……続きを見る

Author Christopher Pagliuco reveals the all-but-forgotten stories of these Connecticut heroes. When Puritans Edward Whalley and William Goffe joined the parliamentary army against King Charles I in ……続きを見る

Agents of the Invisible World explores an underappreciated aspect of the well-researched early modern witchcraft trials: children. In particular, this work analyses the various roles children played……続きを見る

A college professor debunks the historical myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leani……続きを見る

A History of New York, narrated by the fictive antiquary Diedrich Knickerbocker, is at once a mock-chronicle and an urban origin myth. Beginning with cosmogony and proceeding through the Dutch settl……続きを見る

Of Plymouth Plantation - True Story of the Pilgrims' Life in the New World Colony narrates the Separatists' migration from Leiden, the Atlantic crossing, the Mayflower Compact, and two difficult dec……続きを見る

King William's War: How the First Colonial Conflict Changed America Forever King William's War, fought between 1689 and 1697, was the first major conflict between French and English colonists in Nor……続きを見る

Wicked Puritans of Essex County is a unique report on Puritan criminality that shatters the stereotype of the Puritan (someone striving, above all, to achieve moral purity). With a ground breaking, ……続きを見る

In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the border conflict called “Pontiac’s War.” Brokering a truce without……続きを見る

In "Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II," Charles Wentworth Upham meticulously chronicles the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692, offering a detailed examination of the socio-political and religious……続きを見る

In "A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c," William Henry Whitmore presents a detailed and nuanced account of Sir Edmund Andros, a controversia……続きを見る

"More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered." – George Lincoln Burr A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s m……続きを見る

Haben Sie sich jemals gefragt, wie dreizehn kämpfende Kolonien zu einer globalen Supermacht wurden? Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf diese unglaubliche Reise. Beginnend mit den Zivilisationen der ameri……続きを見る

French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and t……続きを見る

Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoonーa Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America’s most influential and ove……続きを見る

In Detestable and Wicked Arts**, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective.** Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of w……続きを見る

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft epis……続きを見る

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 t……続きを見る

In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceasedーmost crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where ……続きを見る

Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that materi……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

The Witchcraft Delusion in New England in three volumes is a book relating the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693. It presents the compilation of works on the subject by Cotton Mather, a Puritan minist……続きを見る

Born in 1587 on Roanoke Island, Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World. She should have been the symbol of a bright future, a new generation in a land full of promise. But j……続きを見る

Le tome III d’Histoire des peuples de langue anglaise intitulé Les Temps de la Révolution met en scène l’ancêtre de Churchill, le duc de Malborough, qui affronta, lors de la Guerre de Succession d’E……続きを見る

No Cross, No Crown is perhaps the most famous of patriot William Penn's treatises. 続きを見る

The Rogerenes is an ambitious anthology that explores the rich tapestry of narratives surrounding the Rogerenes, a unique religious sect from 18th-century America known for their radical approach to……続きを見る

First Published in 1980. The dynamism within the American colonies in the fifty years or so before the outbreak of the crisis of the 1760s that was to lead to the Revolution has never been in doubt.……続きを見る

In 'The Declaration of Independence: An Address,' Winslow Warren presents a profound examination of one of the most significant texts in American history. Through a carefully crafted narrative, Warr……続きを見る