colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Presents an introduction the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.

Describes the two attempts by English colonists to establish a settlement on Roanoke Island at the end of the 16th century.

Text and pictures describe how tanners made leather in colonial America.

When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.

A biography of the Catholic baron who became the founder of the state of Maryland.

A biography of the colonist and explorer who led the struggling Jamestown colony through its early years and helped found Virginia.

A biography of the famous Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and guaranteed religious freedom to all its settlers.

Provides biographical information about colonial preacher, author, and scholar Cotton Mather, discussing his heritage, his religious beliefs, his role in the Salem witch trials, and other aspects of his life.

When a smallpox epidemic strikes Boston in 1721, eleven-year-old Rob becomes the sole caregiver of his stepfather and brother during the time of their illness.

A biography of the Puritan woman who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for disagreeing with the prevailing religious practices.