colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Presents information for young people on what really happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, when a group of girls and young women accused certain people in the village of witchcraft, leading to the executions of innocent men and women.

Examines the Salem witch trials from a seventeenth-century perspective, discussing the people involved, including the accused, the accusers, the confessors, and the judges; the role of gossip; and the influence of external factors such as the Indian wars on the Maine frontier.

Traces the history of Virginia from the landing of the first settlers in 1607 to Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown in 1781.

A history of the American colonies from their founding to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

A history of North America concentrating on European interests and rivalries and their influence on the development of the New World.

Discusses that period in American history when ministers such as Theodorus Frelinghuysen and Jonathan Edwards stirred in men a sense of worth and dignity which eventually produced the movement for independence.

When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.