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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of colonial America, focusing on the types of foods colonists grew, hunted, and ate, and includes recipes, as well as advice on kitchen safety and cooking equipment.
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
Author
Publisher
Hill & Wang
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as earlier scholars tended to overlook - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. First Generations is one of the first books to examine these women's experiences, to look at them not only as wives, mothers, household managers,...
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Are you ready to leave behind your home in England and risk your life in the name of exploration? You will have to face starvation and angry natives if you are going to set up a colony. Read some top tips from the experts.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Though the English did not begin their colonization of the New World with the intention of enslaving anyone, by the end of the seventeenth century chattel slavery existed in each of England's American colonies. Why? And why did the English enslave West Africans rather than native Americans or Europeans? Historians have usually stressed either racial ideology or determining economic and demographic factors, but Betty Wood suggests that a more complex...
10) 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.
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Women's Voices, Women's Lives offers a wealth of primary sources on women's experiences in colonial America. Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz gather together a broad spectrum of documents that crossents race, class, and region, presenting the voices of African American, European, and Native American women, the rich and the poor, and women in the south, the middle colonies, and New England. The editors draw on diaries, letters, essays, court documents,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs of Plimouth Plantation follow a Pilgrim girl through a typical day as she milks the goats, cooks and serves meals, learns her letters, and adjusts to her new stepfather.
13) 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, with 97 percent of Americans eating turkey on that day. But beyond the bird, the menu is as varied as the cultures of the nation's melting pot--and every recipe tells a story. Giving Thanks explores the delicious, fascinating history of Thanksgiving, complete with trivia, recipes, and an amazing collection of archival imagery of the holiday's history. Perfect for parents, kids, teachers, history...
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
"Literally and metaphorically, the settlement of the New World wrought a sea change in the lives of those who experienced it. In To Comfort the Heart Paula Treckel explores the meaning of that change to the English, Native American, and African women in England's North American colonies. Focusing on the experience of English "huswives" and indentured servants, she reveals how their actions and expectations, as well as their relationships with women...
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