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Looking for history, historical fiction, memoirs, travel journals, COOK BOOKS, sociology, etc.

>> No.17912609

>>17912599
townsends is kino

>> No.17912619

>>17912609
He is indeed.

>> No.17912768

>>17912599
Oxford History of the American People v1
The most SOVLFVL period in American history is either colonial America or the Gilded Age imo

>> No.17913241

>>17912599
"The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd" is great. He was a missionary to the Indians who died at 29 from tuberculosis. He was in love with Johnathan Edwards daughter who also died after taking care of him.
"Into the American Woods" for frontier negotiations with the Indians in Pennsylvania
"Home Life in Colonial Days" by Alice Morse Earle
"Of Sorts for Provincials" for weapons used by the provincial forces during the French and Indian War
"Crucible of War" is the best book on the French and Indian War

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>>17913241
ty

>> No.17914918

SO SOULFUL... EVEN MORE SO THAN SEGREGATION BETWEEN «WHITES», AND «COLORED».

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BORN TOO LATE; THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME...

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AT LEAST THERE STILL ARE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, WHICH ARE BETTER THAN ZOOPARKS.

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>>17912599
>Books about Colonial America

The Colonial Image: Origins of American Culture

Description: 500 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Part 1. Arrivals --
The Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford --
A description of New England / Captain John Smith --
The new English Canaan / Thomas Morton --
Letters / John and Margaret Winthrop --
The crossing to Pennsylvania / Gottfried Mittelberger --
Part 2. Daily life --
Pirates in Plymouth / William Bradford --
Thomas Morton of Merrymount / William Bradford --
The Merrymount Colony / Thomas Morton --
Edifying incidents / John Winthrop --
An exemplary Christian / Cotton Mather --
Inoculation for smallpox / Cotton Mather --
Courtship / Samuel Sewall --
Marriage / William Byrd --
On taking a mistress / Benjamin Franklin --
The speech of Polly Baker / Benjamin Franklin --
Riding through Virginia / William Byrd --
Part 3. God and the devil --
Religious tolerance / Roger Williams --
In defence of intolerance / Nathaniel Ward --
Witchcraft in Salem / Increase Mather --
Witchcraft in Salem / Cotton Mather --
Witchcraft in Salem / Samuel Sewall --
The devil in the shape of a woman / Cotton Mather --
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards --
Personal narrative / Jonathan Edwards --
Part 4. Indians --
The Indians in Virginia / Captain John Smith --
Pocahontas / Captain John Smith --
The Pequot War / William Bradford --
The Pequot War / Edward Johnson --
Indian customs and manners / Robert Beverley --
Captured by Indians / Mrs. Mary Rowlandson --
Part 5. The South --
Virginia / Robert Beverley --
History of the dividing line / William Byrd --
Part 6. Literature --
Anne Bradstreet --
Michael Wigglesworth --
Edward Taylor --
Bacon's epitaph / Anonymous --
Ebenezer Cook --
Benjamin Franklin --
Part 7. Four colonial views --
Itinerarium / Alexander Hamilton --
Autobiography / Benjamin Franklin --
Journal / John Woolman --
Letters from an American farmer / Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur.