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List created by Venessa A. on Sep 25, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 18 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Closed
List created by Venessa A. on Sep 25, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 18 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Closed
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Colonial New York: A History by Michael Kammen
Today, New York stands as the stronghold of American culture, business, and cosmopolitanism. Its size, influence, and multicultural compostition mark it as a corner-stone of our country. The rich and varied history of early New York would seem to present a fertile topic for investigation to... more
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Colonial America: A History in Documents (Pages from History) by Edward G. Gray
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John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father by Francis J. Bremer
The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan 'City on a Hill' has had a lasting effect on American values. In John Winthrop,... more
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Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence by Unknown Author
This modern, annotated adaptation of the original three-volume edition of Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Ellet restores, in a single volume, a unique compilation of the roles played by eighty-four American women in the Revolutionary War. A best-seller in the 1850s, Ellet's work is... more
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What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America by Lind...
Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies information about its wearer and its era. This stunning book features eighteenth- and... more
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The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America by Unknown Author
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Daily Life During the American Revolution (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through His...
How did the patriot army dress themselves? What was the British soldier's food ration and what were women's roles during the revolution? This engaging and informative resource on the social and material history of the Revolutionary War period answers these and many other questions.
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Colonial America Primary Sources: Primary Sources (Colonial America Reference Library...
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They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites...
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Women in Early America : Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World by Dorothy Ma...
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Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights (Barnes & Noble...
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted... more
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The War Between the Spies: A History of Espionage During the American Civil War by Al...
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States by Unknown ...
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of... more
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The Civil War : The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil W...
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham... more