history

Discusses events that led to the founding of the Thirteen Colonies.

A history of the Boston Post Road from its early days as a series of Indian trails to the present.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth tries to fit into the world of the Shaker sisters in 1862 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, but yearns to be reunited with her mother and siblings from whom she was separated when they sought refuge from her abusive father. Includes facts about Shakers and Morgan's Raiders.

When his father returns from the war in 1946, a ten year old boy and his family move from their home in a Montana town to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere where they work hard trying to make ends meet.

Early Whitcomb, whose family's farm in Iowa is failing due to drought, is enticed by his uncle Jesse to go west and dig for gold to help prevent foreclosure, but during their adventure, Jesse gets into trouble, and Early makes hard decisions while trying to find his relative and the riches that lay hidden in the mountains.

Provides information about money and finance in colonial America, tracing the development of a money system from the arrival of Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century, to the American Revolution, discussing Native American money, merchant bankers, colonial merchants, bartering, coins and currency, taxes, and early banks and bankers.

Examines various aspects of home life in colonial America, discussing housing, furniture, families, children, housework, food and drink, cooking, spinning, weaving, sewing, and changing lifestyles. Includes a glossary and list of primary sources.

Relates the history of the Colony of Pennsylvania from its founding by William Penn in 1681 to statehood in 1787.

Relates the history of the Colony of New Jersey from its founding in 1664 to statehood in 1787.