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  • The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784

    A Study of Frontier Ethnography

    by George D. Wolf ...
    This edition features• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSPrefaceIntroductionI. Fair Play Territory: Geography and TopographyII. The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic FactorsIII. The Politics of Fair PlayIV. The Farmers' FrontierV. Fair Play SocietyVI. Leadership and the Problems of the FrontierVII. Democracy on the Pennsylvania FrontierVIII. Frontier Ethnography and the Turner ThesisBibliography... ... Read more

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  • Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in Washington’s army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the ... Read more

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  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

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    "A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale UniversityConfessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange ... Read more

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  • The History of England

    by David Hume ...
    David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is an important figure in Western philosophy, and in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume first gained recognition and respect as a historian, but academic interest in Hume's work has in recent years centered on his philosophical writing. His "History of England" was the standard work on English history for many years, ... Read more

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  • The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Fiske ...
    John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian who wrote letters to Charles Darwin and became a voluminous writer of histories near the end of his life. The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, and it was through the popularization of Charles ... Read more

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  • The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith

    by E. Boyd Smith ...
    Long, long ago, when the Indians owned the land, there lived in Virginia, near the river afterwards called the James, a little girl, the Princess Pocahontas, daughter of the great chief Powhatan.Pocahontas was her father's favorite child, and the pet of the whole tribe; even the fierce warriors loved her sunny ways.She was a child of nature, and the birds trusted her and came at her call. She knew ... Read more

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  • The Sons of Liberty: The Lives and Legacies of John Adams, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Weaves the lives of the 4 Sons of Liberty together into one entertaining and educational narrative. *Explains the relationships between the men and the roles each one played in the pivotal events before and during the Revolution.*Includes Paul Revere's account of his midnight ride and Longfellow's famous poem Paul Revere's Ride*Includes several letters and writings from John Adams, Sam Adams and ... Read more

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  • The Life of George Washington (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Marshall ...
    John Marshall (September 24, 1755 July 6, 1835) is perhaps Americas greatest jurist. As the Chief Justice of the United States from 180135, Marshalls opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist ... Read more

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  • Pontiac's War: The Siege of Detroit. Illustrated.

    by J T Headley ...
    A short history of the siege of Detroit by Pontiac, chief of the Ottawas, as he banded together diverse tribes to try to stave off the inevitable English onslaught. ... Read more

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  • Peaceable Kingdom Lost

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    by Kevin Kenny ...
    William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of ... Read more

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  • Brethren by Nature

    New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

    by Margaret Ellen Newell ...
    Newell has done an excellent job of combing through court records correspondence and other materials to reconstruct details large and small and to uncover the stories of enslaved people and their enslavers... [A] testament to her careful scholarship and indeed a central part of the story of Indian slavery in New England.— Daniel K. Richter â• New England QuarterlyIn Brethren by Nature, Margaret ... Read more

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