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When the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search ...
View full detailsThis is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chron...
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Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in Am...
View full detailsFrom the earliest days of the United States, millions of Americans have served their country in the military. Indeed, most families have seen one o...
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For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in ...
View full detailsThis book, with 200 fascinating images from the past, covers more than a hundred years of New York State history. It starts with a daguerreotype of...
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On a moonless night in the early 1790s, prisoner Mary Bryant, her husband William, her two small children, and seven other convicts stole a twenty-...
View full detailsWith a history tied to the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge has grown from its colonial past as a military outpost favored by the French, English, an...
View full detailsThe winner of South Africa's prestigious Sunday Times/Alan Paton prize, this moving, illuminating memoir chronicles the life of an extraordinary wo...
View full detailsOne of the thirteen original colonies, the state of New Jersey is a study in contrasts. It is both the Garden State, home to the Rutgers tomato, bu...
View full detailsIn 1766, Moravian settlers, most having migrated to the Crown colony of North Carolina from Pennsylvania, established the town of Salem. Over eight...
View full detailsPhiladelphia began, nearly a century before the American Revolution, as the colony of Englishman and Quaker convert William Penn. Founded in 1681 o...
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Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity."Rich . . . fascinating." --The New York Times ...
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Spanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguid...
View full detailsThe spirited story of Mary Evans, an extraordinary woman from colonial Charles Town who finds a place for herself in St. Augustine after Spain rel...
View full detailsIn 1801, relations between the world's only two republics, the United States and France, were at a low ebb. American merchants had just lost millio...
View full detailsIsle of Canes is the epic account of an African-American family in Louisiana that, over four generations and more than 150 years, rose from the ...
View full detailsMore than 250 years passed from the founding of the first English colony in the New World at Jamestown in Virginia until the beginning of the Ameri...
View full detailsJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an E...
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For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories "Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, ...
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A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the ...
View full detailsIn 1766, Moravian settlers, most having migrated to the Crown colony of North Carolina from Pennsylvania, established the town of Salem. Over eight...
View full detailsFounded in 1666 along the Passaic River by Puritans arriving from the New Haven colony farther east, Newark emerged in the nineteenth century at th...
View full detailsNative South Carolinian and historian Benjamin Brawley once wrote, "The little triangle on the map known as South Carolina represents a portion of ...
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