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1	The Wordy Shipmates more books like this by Sarah Vowell add to wishlist From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Assassination Vacation" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities. see all copies from $4.94! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin more books like this by H W Brands add to wishlist This biography of Ben Franklin sees him as both a representative of the new man--the American--and an agent of historical change, whose participation was central to the debates that shaped the new nation. This book was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times more books like this by Kate Waters add to wishlist see all copies from $14.00!
4	Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America more books like this by Dr. Daniel K Richter add to wishlist In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its ... see all copies from $4.71! new only from $15.18! \| SVS
5	Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy more books like this by Kate Waters add to wishlist A colorful photo-essay depicts what life would have been like for a seven-year-old pilgrim boy. On this day in the life of Samuel Eaton, he joins the grown-ups in harvesting rye. see all copies from $3.10! new only from $3.87! \| SVS
6	Everyday Life in Early America more books like this by Hawke (Editor) add to wishlist "In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."-- "Publishers Weekly" see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America more books like this by David Hackett Fischer add to wishlist Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers ... see all copies from $8.78! new only from $21.97! \| SVS
8	Light and the Glory more books like this by Sir Peter Marshall, David Manuel add to wishlist Younger children can start learning about their national heritage. The Light and the Glory activity book conveys foundational concepts for pre-readers and beginning readers from the adult and children's versions of history books. All materials have been professionally drawn and developed for the age group. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	If You Lived in Colonial Times more books like this by Ann McGovern add to wishlist A look at the various customs and dress of the Colonial age. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774 more books like this by Catherine Gourley, Jodi Evert (Editor), Camela Decaire (Editor) add to wishlist Provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $39.00!
11 view cover	American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It more books like this by Richard Rosenfeld, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Introduction by) add to wishlist The absorbing chronicle of America's first oppositionist newspaper from 1790 through 1800, "American Aurora" "tells the story of the first government assault on free speech, immigrant communities, religious minorities, and the political left" ("The Nation"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
12 view cover	Colonial America: Essays in Politics & Social Development more books like this by Stanley N Katz (Editor) add to wishlist As an anthology of readings by top scholars in the field of Early American History, "Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development" provides students with an insightful and critical view of the Colonial period. The Fifth Edition is heavily revised to reflect shifting emphasis on the continentalist approach to early American history. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Slumps, grunts, and snickerdoodles : what Colonial America ate and why more books like this by Lila Perl, Richard Cuffari add to wishlist Examines the diets and culinary innovations of the American colonists and gives thirteen colonial recipes, including succotash, snickerdoodles, and spoon bread. see all copies from $1.99! SVS
14 view cover	The Cultural Life of the American Colonies more books like this by Louis B Wright, Henry Steele Commager (Introduction by), Richard Brandon Morris (Introduction by) add to wishlist Sweeping survey of 150 years of colonial history (1607-1763) offers authoritative, perceptive views by a brilliant scholar on agrarian society and leadership, non-English influences, religion, education, literature, drama, music, architecture, science, much more. "A significant contribution to early American history." -- "American History Review." ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.90! \| first editions
15 view cover	Home Life in Colonial Days more books like this by Alice Morse Earle add to wishlist A comprehensive account of the daily life and customs of pre-Revolutionary War America, including travel, meals, dress, gardening, and social customs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	American Revolutionaries in the Making: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia more books like this by Charles S Sydnor add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.59! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Colonial Living more books like this by Edwin Tunis add to wishlist 'Colonial Living' is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America--of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.13! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life more books like this by James Deetz, Ph.D. add to wishlist History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the intricacies of daily life. In his completely ... see all copies from $3.17! new only from $8.79! \| SVS
19 view cover	Felicity's Craft Book: A Look at Crafts from the Past with Projects You Can Make Today more books like this by Pleasant Company add to wishlist Instructions for making a cross-stitch sampler, a tussie-mussie, and fourteen other crafts are given. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $89.67! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities more books like this by Professor Richard Lyman Bushman add to wishlist How did the parlor, parasol, piano lesson, and white-glove style of life and manners come to a nation whose inhabitants, save for the very few families of wealth, lived the simplest of pioneer lives? Bushman's answer: a long-held belief, so crucial to the country's politics, in the inalienable right of every American to membership in the middle ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $11.34! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents more books like this by Thomas S Kidd add to wishlist A detailed examination of the First Great Awakening, this volume presents a valuable study of the spiritual movement that profoundly shaped colonial American cultural and religious life. Thomas Kidd's comprehensive introduction relies on recent scholarship to describe three contemporary views of the revivals: those of radicals in favor of them, ... see all copies from $9.45! new only from $15.88! \| SVS
22 view cover	Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Benjamin Franklin, Mark Skousen (Editor) add to wishlist Readers and historians have long lamented that Franklin failed to complete his Autobiography. While a classic in literature and among the most widely read autobiographies in the world, he stopped writing it in 1757-years before the most exciting events of his life. Now, in honour of the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, Skousen has finished ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina more books like this by Kirsten Fischer add to wishlist see all copies from $14.33! new only from $15.95!
24 view cover	The Origins of American Politics more books like this by Bernard Bailyn add to wishlist '....these well-argued essays represent the first sustained and systematic attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated analysis of all elements of American political life during the late colonial period... the author has once again put all students concerned with colonial America heavily in his intellectual debt.' - Jack P. Greene, The New ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $8.60! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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