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  • The Captives of Abb's Valley

    A Legend of Frontier Life

    In 1786, a party of Shawnee Indians attacked James Moore and his family in the remote Abb's Valley of Virginia.The entire family was masacred except for two children, James and Mary. Their tale here was penned by the grandson James Moore Brown. ... Read more

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  • The Captives of Abb's Valley

    A Legend of Frontier Life

    In 1786, a party of Shawnee Indians attacked James Moore and his family in the remote Abb's Valley of Virginia. The entire family was masacred except for two children, James and Mary. Their tale here was penned by the grandson James Moore Brown. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, ... Read more

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  • The Unredeemed Captive

    A Family Story from Early America

    by John Demos ...
    Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his ... Read more

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  • Love and Hate in Jamestown

    John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

    A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for ... Read more

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  • The Pueblo Revolt

    The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest

    by David Roberts ...
    The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is a pivotal chapter in United States history.With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for decades, ... Read more

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  • The Shawnees and the War for America

    With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew ... Read more

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  • The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France

    The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French ... Read more

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  • Thanksgiving

    The Pilgrims' First Year in America

    Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.They bowed their heads to give thanks.The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival.With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower ... Read more

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  • Witchcraft in Early North America

    by Alison Games ...
    Series series American Controversies
    Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies in North America. Her substantial and lively introduction orients readers to the subject and to the ... Read more

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  • Masters of Empire

    Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

    "[A] magisterial tale of how the Anishinaabe Odawa lived through and shaped the history of North America and the early modern world." —Kathleen DuVal, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known ... Read more

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  • Roanoke – The language and history of EARLY COLONIAL AMERICA:

    From Raleigh and Jamestown to Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony (1515–1632) – Book 2 –

    Series Book 2 - Transpontine Series
    While the true direction of the Transpontine Series is to get to the heart of US history, this second book starts off with the 80 or so years of exploration and colonisation that led to the first attempts by the English to gain a foothold in North America. It will look at how the first (very much illegal) English bible sparked a religious protest movement that gave us separatist puritans and ... Read more

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