Fisher, Leonard Everett

Describes the enterprise and commercial development that peddlers brought to the colonies before the establishing of general stores.

History of the tanning industry and the processes employed in Colonial times.

Surveys the history of printing in colonial America, describing the work of early printers, the development of the free press, and the printer's craft and technique.

Discusses the schools of colonial America and the lives and work of the teachers.

Depicts the anti-Semitic terror that finally drives Benjamin Shapiro, his wife, and 11 children out of Czarist Russia to America at the beginning of the 20th century.

Surveys the history and technique of shoemaking in colonial America.