17th century

Discusses life at court and town and country life of seventeenth-century England from the reign of James I through the period following the Restoration.

Presents a biography of the Sun King who ruled France from 1651 until 1715.

Titus, the son of famous artist Rembrandt van Rijn, tells how his father's life and work taught him about creativity and ways of seeing the world.

Follows the heroine's adventures and struggle against poverty, from her birth at Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England to her success in the American colonies.

Presents an account of the founding and difficult early years of the Jamestown Colony and discusses why colonists traveled from England to North America, what struggles the colonists faced in the settlement's first years, and who led the colony and helped it become a success.

Thrown out of her home by her stepmother in 1670, fifteen-year-old Eliza Rose becomes a companion of actress Nelly Gwyn, a mistress of Charles II, and learns a surprising truth about her parentage.

Follows the struggles and triumphs of the colonists who came to the New World and founded Jamestown Colony in what would become Virginia.

In a travel guide format, presents a look at the sites and society that existed in London during the time of William Shakespeare.

Explores the historic events, people, and situations surrounding the establishment of the Jamestown Colony in 1607.