An introduction to the Declaration of Independence that discusses colonial life, taxes, Thomas Jefferson, the Boston Tea Party, liberty, free states, and other related topics, and includes a time line, Web sites, and suggestions for further reading.
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
Presents a chronology of world events during the colonial era, and explores American life in the years between 1783 to 1815 from eleven different perspectives, including the arts, education, religion, and law and justice.
Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.
Profiles sixty men and women relevant to the colonial era in America; features shorter biographies and sidebars about people and events who are in some way connected to the main biographee; and includes illustrations, cross-references, timelines, and sources for further study.
Examines the colonial period in America, discussing both the Native American culture before the arrival of Europeans and the exploration and settlement of different parts of the New World.
