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The life of a colonial schoolteacher

Presents in graphic novel format the life of a colonial school teacher.
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A kid's life in colonial America

Examines life in Colonial America by looking at the experiences of its children.

A reforming people

Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England
2011
Looks at how the people who founded the New England colonies used laypeople, petitioning, and participation to set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land that avoided the development of unlimited authority and advanced the idea of democracy.

New England nation

the country the Puritans built
2012
Uses primary sources and narrative to describe Puritan New England in the seventeenth century, discussing the history behind the creation of the American Puritan society, the complexity of society in the region, and the parallels that can be drawn between it and today's America.

If you were a kid in the thirteen colonies

Introduces children to the original thirteen colonies of the United States.

Greenhorn on the frontier

1974
Just before the Revolutionary War, nineteen-year-old Harry and his twenty-three-year-old sister, Sukey, move their few possessions by hand cart to start their own farm on the western Pennsylvania frontier.

Colonial American crafts

The home
1989
A collection of thirteen projects and recipes which relate to the colonial of American home and the way of life there.

Settling the New World

2006
Describes the English, Spanish, French, and Dutch settlers' motivations for coming to the New World, the daily lives of each group, and their contributions to the development of American society.

The era of colonization

(1585-1763)
2003
Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians examine significant events in U.S history from 1585 to 1763, discussing the early European settlers and interaction with Native Americans, the Jamestown and Puritan settlements, and religious diversity.

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