"Describes the people and events involved during the colonial years before the Revolutionary War. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of an indentured Virginia servant, a Massachusetts colonist, and a resident of Philadelphia just before the revolution"--Provided by publisher.
In Explore Colonial America!, kids ages 6-9 learn about America’s earliest days as European settlements, and how the colonists managed to survive, build thriving colonies, and eventually challenge England for independence.
Toothless at twenty in Colonial America? Discover some of the most amazing and amusing facts about life in Colonial America and how the pilgrims survived it all.
Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents
A brief description of schools in colonial America, and what children learned there.
This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events.
This book brings the colonial period to life in all its rich complexity, and shows how colonial attitudes toward taxation offer a unique window into the causes of the revolution.
These 93 stories provide a unique insight into the lives of mostly ordinary colonial people who lived in extraordinary times.
The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia.
Captain James Moore , Jr. , a veteran trader and the son of the former governor , commanded the South Carolina expedition , but most of his men were Indians : Cherokee , Yamasee , Creek , and Catawba . In March 1713 , Moore's raiders ...
The stories of 23 little-known but remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English and Portuguese colonies of the New World. These include women and men of all the races and classes of colonial society.