colonial life

Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

Examines American life from colonial times to 1763, providing information about the climate, natural history, geography, Native Americans, the economy, population, diet and health, religion, government, cities, prominent people, education, culture, and crime.

Uses personal stories and primary source material to focus on the changes in the lives of American women of all ethnic and economic backgrounds and to discuss the variety and importance of their experiences.

Describes colonial history from the point of view of minorities and women.

Describes and illustrates the historical, political, and religious aspects of life in colonial America through a variety of images produced during that time.

Describes the development of settlements, taverns, and ferry crossings along the Pennsylvania and New Jersey shores of the Delaware River and the events leading to Washington's crossing of this river in 1776.

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

Discusses the day-to-day aspects of country and city life in the American colonies for a variety of people including members of different professions, specific immigrant groups, and slaves.

Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.

Describes the plantations that existed in the southern United States into the nineteenth century, examining what life was like for the owners of these large farming communities, their children, and the slaves.