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Author
Series
Capricorn giant volume 242
Publisher
Capricorn Books
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Description
"In these pages I have undertaken to describe the life of colonial America from 1625 to 1742 as it developed under urban conditions."--Preface.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the 'American Revolution': former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams...
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
"Gundersen's analysis benefits from two decades of scholarly research into the lives of colonial women. Her vivid account synthesizes the work of her colleagues and brings an essential multicultural perspective to the discussion. She examines the lives of African women brought as slaves to the colonies and their American-born descendants, as well as of Native American women. Gundersen also extends the parameters of her study to include the decades...
Author
Publisher
Signature Books Services
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with "the shot heard 'round the world." But the people started taking action earlier than many think. The First American Revolution uses the wide-angle lens of a people's historian to tell a surprising new story of America's revolutionary struggle.
In the years before the battle of Lexington and Concord, local people-men and women of common means but of uncommon courage-overturned...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? Those are the questions H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of information about the daily lives, homes, clothing, and activities in Colonial America. Describes how the European colonists, American Indians, and African slaves exchanged ideas and customs to create a unique American culture. Includes color illustrations, a glossary, and an index.
9) A U.S. Independence Time Capsule: Artifacts of the Nation's Beginnings /Time Capsule History Series
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
If the founding fathers and mothers of the United States had built a time capsule to tell the story of the nation's beginnings, what artifacts would be packed inside? Tea leaves, a lantern, yellowed documents, and more tell a part of the story of the colonists' fight for independence. In this Time Capsule History book, readers can examine primary sources of the Revolutionary Era to explore this exciting moment in history!
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable--indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. Beeman tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the forging of American independence.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity. 15 halftones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor. For the next...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America. Hard work proved a constant for most women--they ensured their family's survival through their skills while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants and slaves. Even in this world defined entirely by men, a world where no one...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Why did the American Revolution take place? It was about more than the dates and details we all know: war elephants charging a fort in India and high-stakes gambles of bankers in Scotland, among other events, also played a part in the "real revolution" in the minds of the entire population of what would become the United States.
17) Colonial home
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes the homes, customs, and habits of seventeenth and eighteenth century North American settlers.
18) The blacksmith
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the tools, activities, and importance of the blacksmith in colonial communities.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means - and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? What Vowell discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoe-buckles-and-corn reputation might suggest.