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"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...

Presents an assortment of crafts representative of colonial times in the United States

Presents the people of seventeenthcentury America in the vividness and hardship of their everyday lives.

Discusses the importance of wood in colonial times, describing how trees were cut down and made into lumber and the training of apprentice carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, and wheelwrights.

Color photographs and text describe everyday life in the American colonies.

A brief look at colonial life in Jamestown and in the New England settlements in the early seventeenth century.

Describes the events leading to the composition and signing of the Declaration of Independence, and discusses the document's importance in American history.