17th century

Explores the communities of Colonial America and the role mills played in their survival, discussing how mills work, why they were necessary, and the life of the millers that ran them.

Explores the achievements and life of seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke.

A collection of primary source documents from colonial newspapers designed to help students debate the issues of colonial America.

Introduces some of the major artists, writers, and composers that flourished in Europe during the seventeenth century.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican nun who not only wrote poetry and plays and conducted botanical studies but was world famous for her knowledge of many subjects.

An illustrated children's version of the journal of a young Dutch trader, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois Indians, a Mohawk tribe that controlled the trade routes in the area, in 1634, seeking to bolster the Dutch trade in what is now New York State.

Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.

Presents an introductory overview of the Salem witch trials and biographical profiles of five people involved: the slave Tituba, Reverend Samuel Parris, Reverend Cotton Mather, Judge Samuel Sewall, and one of those hanged, Rebecca Nurse.

Describes the widespread changes in the conduct of war that occurred in the 200 years between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century.