Europeans came to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s in search of a better life. They worked hard and built farms, homes, and towns. But they were still under Great Britain's rule. Many wanted to make their own laws, but that meant going to war against a rich and powerful country. Will you: Travel to Virginia as an indentured servant? Choose between careers as a sailor or a soldier in Massachusetts? Decide which side you'll take as the country marches closer to revolution?
In this fourth edition of African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution, acclaimed scholar Donald R. Wright offers new interpretations to provide a clear understanding of the Atlantic slave ...
A fulling mill, the first such documented in the American colonies, is constructed in Rowley, Massachusetts. Saybrook Colony merges with Connecticut Colony. The settlements of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport unite to create the ...
Civil War and Reconstruction, by William L. Richter, 2004. Revolutionary America, by Terry M. Mays, 2005. Old South, by William L. Richter, 2006. Early American Republic, by Richard Buel Jr., 2006. Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny, ...
Captioned line drawings and background descriptions provide insight into the clothing worn by seafarers, farmers, frontiersmen, public servants, and others of the working class between 1710 and 1810
Colonial America, A History to 1763. ... Colonial America (1492–1763) e Library of Congress www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_subj.html From the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., ... You Choose: Historical Eras.
David P. McKay and Richard Crawford , William Billings of Boston ( Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press , 1975 ) , 166-176 ; Henry M. Brooks , Olden - Time Music ( Boston : Ticknor , 1888 ; reprint , New York ...
Robert W. Black adds a new chapter to his story of the American Rangers, beginning with the birth of the Ranger idea in the 1600s and following Ranger forces through the Mexican War of 1846-48.
" Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles "This new edition brings the classic survey text in colonial American history abreast of the latest scholarship without sacri??? cing any of the earlier versions' coherence, clarity, ...
"Describes life in the American colonies, focusing on colonists' clothing, homes, and modes of transportation"--Provided by publisher.
In Fourteenth Colony, historian Mike Bunn offers the first comprehensive history of the colony, introducing readers to the Gulf Coast's remarkable British period and putting West Florida back in its rightful place on the map of Colonial ...