A History of the American People
Edict of Nantes. The same decade, in Protestant London, there was a violent mob-led hunt for Catholic subversives led by the ren ...
For him, his numerous scientific interests were in no way opposed to his religious beliefs but were an extension of them. He arg ...
Cotton Mather himself is a significant and tragic figure in American history. When he was born in 1663, New England still seemed ...
Here is rich food for thought about the whole American experiment, secular as well as religious. It is worth noting that when Co ...
complained that the Ulstermen took over in an audacious and disorderly manner,' telling him and other officials thatit was again ...
that a negro conspiracy was to blame and that the slaves were planning to take over the city. Many blacks were arrested, eightee ...
land totaling 2 million acres, which had been in his family for generations, to a group of Portsmouth businessmen for a planned ...
inconsistent with the interests of the Mother State must be understood be illegal and the practice of them unwarrantable, becaus ...
entirely clothe themselves in their own woollens, and generally the people are sliding into the manufactures proper to the Mothe ...
inches taller than their British counterparts. They ate good dairy food too. By 1750 a typical Connecticut farm owned ten head o ...
discoursed eloquently in a letter home of peaches, nectarines and mellons of all sorts extremely fine and in profusion, and thei ...
Weekly Mercury (1719), the Boston New England Courant (1721), started by Benjamin Franklin's elder brother James, and Franklin's ...
of the hill overlooking the harbor, enormous flags, each from a different shipping company, announced major arrivals from the oc ...
German and Scots-Irish workmen, as well as slaves for the heavy work. This glorious iron- master's house was held by six generat ...
two forms of ownership, which involved a high degree of self-government, the colonies would never have got going at all, because ...
exclaimed in exasperation: That old fool has taken away more lives in that naked country than I did here for the murder of my fa ...
forced to concede their rights to assemblies. These were all further milestones along a road which led only in one direction, to ...
took a leading legislative and executive part, were vaguely gentry. They were fluent orators, by virtue of their education, and ...
massive, busy Long Wharf' which ran out to sea for half a mile and where the world's biggest ships could safely berth in any tid ...
was started by preachers moving among the rural fastnesses, close to the frontier, among humble people, some of whom rarely had ...
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