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Here is the story of the fateful marriage of the richest woman in Virginia and the man who could have been king. In telling their story, Chadwick explains not only their remarkable devotion to each other, but why the wealthiest couple in Virginia became revolutionaries who risked the loss of their vast estates and their very lives.
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The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Life in the Colonial Armies and Navies is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Procesy czarownic w Salem sięgają czasów kolonialnych w USA, kiedy to prześladowani purytanie uciekli z Anglii w XVII wieku i osiedlili się w Massachusetts. Założyli wiele miast, w tym Salem, niedaleko Bostonu, ale byli stale nękani przez Francuzów i Indian. Konflikty te trwały tak długo, że wśród mieszkańców Salem Village rozwinęła się psychoza. O kilku mieszkańcach wsi mówiono, że są opętani przez demony i wkrótce rozeszły...
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The Hunters of Kentucky covers a wide range of frontier existence, from daily life and survival to wars, exploits, and even flora and fauna. The pioneers and their lives are, profiled in biographical sketches, giving a rich sampling of the personalities involved in the United States' westward expansion. Author Ted Franklin Belue's colorful, vivid prose brings these long-forgotten frontiersmen to life.
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In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of-and reactions to-Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Virginia's governor. By contrast, when...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Gender in British North America is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Slavery and Slave Rebellions in Colonial North America is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Colonies in the Atlantic World is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Gale Researcher Guide for: King Philip's War and Its Legacy is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Divisiveness is the hallmark of American politics today. Red state versus blue, liberal versus conservative, secular versus religious, the list goes on. Sometimes it seems we are no longer one nation, but in fact we are. Division and argument have always been a part of the American scene, no more so than at our founding.
In the Emergence of One American Nation, Donald J. Fraser explores the difficulties that the founding generation confronted in...
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This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Not only did this trade increase death rates and the social and cultural isolation of Africans; it also fed the expansion of British slavery...
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Contents:
Stories of Explorers and Pioneers
How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands
The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus
How Columbus Fared Forth Upon the Sea of Darkness and Came to Pleasant Lands Beyond
How Columbus Returned in Triumph
How America Was Named
How the Flag of England Was Planted on the Shores of the New World
How the Flag of France Was Planted in Florida
How the French Founded a Colony in Florida
How the Spaniards...
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"The Women of the Mayflower" is a collection of excerpts revolving around the female passengers of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The ship has since become an important part of American history and culture, as well as the subject of innumerable works of art, plays, films, poems, songs, books, etc. An interesting and insightful collection not to be missed by readers keen to hear the voice...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Slavery in British North America is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
99) Forward to Freedom: The American Constitution and Humanity's Struggle for Liberty Across the Ages
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Forward To Freedom - The American Constitution and Humanity's Struggle for Liberty Across the Ages is a fast-paced, informative, and inspiring account of the Constitution and its historical roots. It should be a must-read for all citizens of the United States, those aspiring to become its citizens, and others seeking to understand "government by the people."
The daily news is filled with references to separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism,...
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"Special Recognition in the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Awards" Alvin Rabushka is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His books include The Flat Tax.
Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the...
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