colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

From Columbus to colonial America

1492 to 1763
2012
Presents primary source documents and explanatory text that covers United States history from 1492 to 1763.

The Encyclopedia of colonial and revolutionary America

1990
A quick reference to the history of Colonial and Revolutionary America with cross-references and bibliographies.

The era of colonization

(1585-1763)
1996
Covers events in the history of North America including European settlers; European and Native American interaction; Jamestown; Puritan settlements and society; religious diversity; religious freedom; Quakers; and the French and Indian War.

John Winthrop

politician and statesman
2001
Text and illustrations chronicle the life and achievements of seventeenth-century Puritan leader John Winthrop, who led the Massachusetts Bay Company and helped create America's public schools; also includes a glossary, chronology, colonial time line, and further reading list.

Jamestown

1998
Explores the history and daily life of the early Jamestown settlers through eleven-year-old Greg, who gets zapped into the Internet while researching a project and finds himself transported to the colony.

Building a new world

1994
Discusses the Hispanic presence in North America from 1565 to the early 1800s.

Felicity's story collection

2001
Felicity, a young girl living in the American colonies in the 1770s, struggles to hold to her beliefs about independence despite the disagreement of her beloved grandfather and her best friend.

The scarlet letter

1990
Hester Prynn, a young woman in Puritan Massachusetts, publicly bears the burden of her sin of adultery while her husband secretly exacts his revenge. Presented in comic book format.

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