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Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the struggle to maintain unity emerged the forces that drove...
7) Unconquered
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1763, a Virginia militia officer helps an English woman sentenced to servitude in the colonies and prevents a war between the colonists and Native Americans."--
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo and General George Crook were born to destroy each other." "And they did - the perfect enemies, perfectly embodying the tragic strengths and weaknesses of their respective cultures. No confrontation more powerfully captures the relentless, irreconcilable struggle between Native Americans and whites than the Apache Wars - the final and longest running of the North American Indian wars. At the heart of that bitter and violent conflict lies...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Loewen (emeritus, sociology, U. of Vermont) exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns, " so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk. He historically situates the rise of the sundown town movement in the years following the Civil War; describes the mechanisms of violence, threats, law, and policy that were used to force minorities out...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared - a frontier civilization...
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