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ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Collections of Teaching Materials
Teacher Guide
The French and Indian War in Pittsburgh, by Annie Dillard
Guide
Why Jamestown Matters, by James Horn
Guide
Essays from This Era
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Title
Author
Issue
The Deadly Raid on Deerfield
James L. Swanson
Carving Up the Americas
Neal Asbury
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts
September 2022
A Fateful Experiment at Jamestown
James Horn
Winter 2020
New Amsterdam Becomes New York
Russell Shorto
Winter 2010
We Were What We Wore
Ink Mendelsohn
December 1988
Champlain Among The Mohawk, 1609
David Hackett Fischer
Spring 2009
Finding the Real Jamestown
William M. Kelso
Winter 2008
Yankee Gunners at Louisbourg
Fairfax Downey
February 1955
Has Roanoke’s Lost Colony Been Found?
James Horn
Spring 2010
Shipwrecked History: Spanish Ships Found in Pensacola Harbor
John E. Worth
Summer 2009
Taken by Indians
Kevin Sweeney
Fall 2008
Why Jamestown Matters
James Horn
Winter 2008
The Spirit Of ’54
Richard M. Ketchum
August/September 2002
The Deerfield Massacre
John Demos
February/March 1993
Private Flohr’s America
Robert A. Selig
December 1992
The House Of Many Layers
Alexander O. Boulton
May/June 1992
The Parson’s Hearth
Alexander O. Boulton
November 1991
How British Are You?
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
November 1990
Behind The Federal Facade
Alexander O. Boulton
May/June 1989
Forts Of The Americas
Jack Rudolph
March 1988
Good Fences
Alexander O. Boulton
February/March 1987
Indians In The Land
William Cronon
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Richard White
August/September 1986
Does A Freeborn Englishman Have A Right To Emigrate?
Bernard Bailyn
February/March 1986
Roanoke Lost
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
August/September 1985
Lost Words Of Colonial America: A Glossary
Richard M. Lederer, Jr.
August/September 1984
The Tempest
Avery Kolb
April/May 1983
Day By Day in a Colonial Town
Robert N. Linscott
December 1983
The Lion’s-eye View
Stephen W. Sears
June/July 1978
Puffing Through The American Past
December 1978
Books We Think You’ll Like
Barbara Klaw
December 1978
The Terror of the Wilderness
Frederick Turner
February 1977
To The Manor Born
Ellsworth S. Grant
October 1975
Before Urban Renewal
June 1973
The Debacle at Fort Carillon
Richard F. Snow
June 1972
Dress Parade
Harold L. Peterson
October 1971
The Hunt For The Regicides
Alexander Winston
December 1964
Digging Up Jamestown
Ivor NoËl Hume
April 1963
Our Last King
J. H. Plumb
June 1960
New England In The Earliest Days
A. L. Rowse
August 1959
Was John Smith A Liar?
Marshall Fishwick
October 1958
Carving Up the Americas
Neal Asbury
|
Jean-Pierre Isbouts
September 2022
A Fateful Experiment at Jamestown
James Horn
Winter 2020
New Amsterdam Becomes New York
Russell Shorto
Winter 2010
Champlain Among The Mohawk, 1609
David Hackett Fischer
Spring 2009
Finding the Real Jamestown
William M. Kelso
Winter 2008
The Rebels Of Merry Mount
Carleton Beals
June 1955
Christopher Columbus, Mariner
Samuel Eliot Morison
December 1955
Shipwrecked History: Spanish Ships Found in Pensacola Harbor
John E. Worth
Summer 2009
The Spirit Of ’54
Richard M. Ketchum
August/September 2002
How British Are You?
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
November 1990
Forts Of The Americas
Jack Rudolph
March 1988
The Hunt For The Regicides
Alexander Winston
December 1964
Digging Up Jamestown
Ivor NoËl Hume
April 1963
New England In The Earliest Days
A. L. Rowse
August 1959
Was John Smith A Liar?
Marshall Fishwick
October 1958
Carving Up the Americas
Neal Asbury
|
Jean-Pierre Isbouts
September 2022
The Young George Washington
Peter Stark
Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books
Holding Down the Fort
Edwin S. Grosvenor
Fall 2017
Wilderness Ordeal
John F. Ross
Summer 2009
This Is Tranquil Deerfield
The Editors
April 1966
The Battle That Won An Empire
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
December 1959
Documents
The Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
Explanation of Cover Photograph of Book "A Hundred Miles of Bad Road" by Philip Randazzo
The War Prayer
A French Account of Braddock's Defeat in 1755, Captain de Contrecoeur
Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia, 1619
First Charter of Virginia, 1606
Letter from an Indentured Servant to His Parents, 1623
Images
L'Amerique Septentrionale 1700 Map by Guilaume Delisle
Captain John Smith’s Map of Virginia