San Antonio College Library

A bit of history precedes the detailed instructions for each model, so that the builder gets a sense of the historic place of each project. The models range in difficulty from a log canoe to a ... detailed stage coach and are organized into sections on transportation, farm implements, early American homes, American villages.

Illustrated history of contemporary events and conditions in America, from 1492 to 1776.

As one of the major documents of early New England, Sewall records a multitude of incidents, impressions, and reflections to produce an inclusive portrait of the true Puritan in his perfect setting. Both a personal document and an excellent social history of New England in the era of the Salem witchcraft trials. It follows Sewall from his Harvard days through his years as a leading businessman and public servant to his old age. It offers a picture...

"This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this new edition of forty volumes will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found and, for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order. To...

Return to Colonial New England for a fresh look at the infamous events of Puritan Salem.

"A publication of the Center for Connecticut Studies of Eastern Connecticut State College." Includes bibliographies and index.

Traces the history and describes the character of each of the thirteen colonies from their founding to the eve of the Revolutionary War.

Explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents, historian Michael Witgen re-creates the world of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior...