1600-1775, colonial period

Describes the food, clothing and houses and what it was like to live in Boston in 1747, when Paul Revere was a boy of twelve.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the journey of a family from London to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.

Traces the competition among the American Indians, French, English, Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other resources of North America.

A simple, illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving, celebrated by the pilgrims and their Native American friends.

Illustrations and easy-to-follow text chronicle the history of early New York, profiling the different groups of people who settled there.

Introduces the tools, activities, and importance of the blacksmith in colonial communities.

Photographs and text describe how colonial Americans made the things they needed such as chairs, baskets, tools, and clothing.

Describes a day in the life of a Connecticut miller during the Revolutionary War, how his gristmill operated, how he kept his tools clean, and what happened when British troops approached.

Illustrations and simple text introduce young readers to the daily experiences of of a surveyor living in the Colonial period.

Discusses the importance of wood in colonial times, describing how trees were cut down and made into lumber and the training of apprentice carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, and wheelwrights.