north america

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Christianity comes to the Americas, 1492-1776

1992
Retells the story of Christianity in North and South America from 1492 through the end of the 18th century.

High-tech warfare

air, land & sea
1992
Text and photographs present modern weaponry of land, sea, and air combat forces around the world.

Pocahontas

1995
Profiles the young Native American woman who intervened with her people to save the Jamestown colony from starvation and exposure.

Mammoth bones and broken stones

the mystery of North America's first people
2010
Examines archaeological evidence of humans in North America, considering the various groups who might have been first on the continent.

Exploring the new world

2009
From the Vikings to Henry Hudson, the great explorers sailed across uncharted waters during the Age of Discovery in search of many things including adventure and wealth.

A voyage long and strange

on the trail of vikings, conquistadors, lost colonists, and other adventurers in early America
2008
Presents a comprehensive examination of North American history between Columbus's landing in 1492 and the founding of Jamestown in 1607; and describes the explorations by the Vikings, French, Moorish slaves, and Spanish conquistadors.

A great and noble scheme

the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland
2005
Chronicles the history of the French Acadians, the French-speaking Catholic inhabitants of eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, and their expulsion by the colonial governments of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, which lasted from 1755 to 1763.

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