1600-1775, colonial period

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1600-1775, colonial period

The Boston Tea Party

rebellion in the colonies
2003
Recounts the events leading up to the colonists' defiant act against the British known as the Boston Tea Party and describes the event itself, showing how it ultimately climaxed in the American Revolution.

The fiery cross

2001
The fifth novel in the Outlander series finds eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire Randall, a woman who has traveled back in time from post-World War II England, in the American colonies in 1771 and preparing for the coming revolution.

American colonies

2001
The first in a five-volume history of the United States, covering a period that ranges from 13,000 B.C. to 1820, looking at how the intermingling cultures, people, plants, and animals of England, Spain, Russia, France, and the Netherlands, as well as African slaves and Native Americans, influenced the development of the American colonies.

Drums of autumn

1997
Continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser, a twentieth-century woman and a Scottish Highlander who fell in love when Claire traveled back in time through a stone circle, following the couple to the American colonies, where their attempts to make a new life for themselves are complicated by the arrival of their daughter Brianna, who has news from the future.

Colonial America

1999
Discusses settlement in colonial America and life in the thirteen colonies.

Pocahontas, Indian princess

1969
Brief biography of the Indian princess who saved the life of the leader of the Jamestown settlers and who later married an Englishman with whom she visited London.

Founding the American colonies

1989
Describes the founding, problems, and social and economic survival of the original thirteen American colonies.

The 1600s

2001

Inventing the "great awakening"

1999
A study of the Great Awakening that swept New England in the eighteenth century, arguing that the religious revival was an invention of the colonists.

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