colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.

Orphaned Drucilla finds a home with the beautiful but troubled Mistress Putnam as accusations of witchcraft start to swirl in Salem Village.

This book examines the cities and local governments of Britain's American colonies, discussing the establishment of Roanoke and Jamestown, the founding of Plymouth, Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the 1776 declaring of independence by Britain's thirteen colonies.

Describes American colonial houses and their furnishings, family life, meals, food and drink, women and their duties, courtship and marriage, children; education, occupations and work, technology and innovations, crime and punishment, justice, health and medicine; leisure, sports, and recreation.

Chronicles the life of Pennsylvania's founder, William Penn, and discusses related topics including the Lenni Lenape tribe, Oliver Cromwell, George Fox, the Great Plague of London, and Pennsbury Manor.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.

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.

Discusses the lives of blacks in the American colonies, from the 17th century when slaves were first brought over by the Spanish to the onset of the American Revolution.

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.