british americans

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the English Americans; factors encouraging their emigration; and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

A step-by-step guide to genealogical research for students of British-American descent or those interested in British-Americans.

Includes information on the reasons for English colonization in America, the colonial period, English immigration from the Revolution to the present, and famous English Americans in many fields.

Provides an overview of the heritage, customs, and beliefs of British immigrants to the United States, discusses the influence of the British on America, and examines the accomplishments of some well-known British Americans.

A British-American grandmother relates family and cultural history about growing up in Southwest Harbor, Maine.

Lucas Turner and his sister, Sally, arrive in New York in 1661 hoping to make a fresh start in the rough Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam, but they find it is harder to adjust to their new life than they thought it would be.

Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.