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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

This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ……続きを見る

Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave ma……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

The Fault Lines of Empire is a fascinating comparative study of two communities in the early modern British Empire--one in Massachusetts, the other in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Mancke focuses on these ……続きを見る

Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and……続きを見る

Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kim……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

*Includes Revere's firsthand account of his midnight ride.*Includes Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride.*Includes pictures of Revere and important people, places, and events in his life.*In……続きを見る

Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well……続きを見る

*Weaves the lives of John and Samuel Adams into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes several quotes and writings from both John and Samuel. *Analyzes their relationship, political co……続きを見る

The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall ……続きを見る

Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in ……続きを見る

Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinisterーand of the……続きを見る

This bundle book is a compilation of four of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the first in a two-part volume. The first volume presents the following subjects in an easy to understand format……続きを見る

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 hi……続きを見る

This bundle book is a compilation of four of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the second in a two-part volume. The first volume presents the following subjects in an easy to understand fo……続きを見る

George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few……続きを見る

In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and ……続きを見る

What did the little ones do back in the days when "children should be seen and not heard"? How were they schooled, what did they wear, and which games did they play? This eye-opening survey revisits……続きを見る

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The Div……続きを見る