"American albums from the collections of the Library of Congress." Describes and illustrates the historical, political, and religious aspects of life in colonial America.
Cobblestone magazine articles cover life in Maryland during the colonial era with a focus on the life of Charles Carroll, a signer of th Declaration of Independence.
Uses personal stories and primary source material to focus on the changes in the lives of American women of all ethnic and economic backgrounds and to discuss the variety and importance of their experiences.
A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early eighteenth century, runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own.
Traces the events leading to the arrival of the first group of Jews in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 and describes how they adapted and eventually prospered under Dutch, and later British, rule.