| Edition |
First Vintage edition. |
| Description |
xxxii, 688 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The old world discovers the new world/ Bartholomed́e Las Casas -- Columbus meets the native Americans/ Christopher Columbus -- Epidemic at Stadacona, and a cure/ Jacques Cartier -- The founding of St. Augustine/ Francisco Loṕez de Mendoza Grajales -- Sir Francis Drake claims a kingdom/ Francis Fletcher -- Virginia/ Captain Arthur Barlowe -- The lost colony/ John White -- The founding of Jamestown/ John Smith -- Pocahontas saves John Smith/ John Smith -- The first representative assembly in America/ John Twine -- The Pilgrims' landing and first winter/ William Bradford -- The maypole of Merry-Mount/ Thomas Morton -- Roger Williams demands freedom of religion/ Nathaniel Morton -- Stuyvesant's bad government/ Junker Van der Donck and Others -- An angry slave/ John Josselyn -- Jolliet and Marquette travel the Mississippi/ Father Jacques Marquette -- King Philip's war : Mary Rowlandson is captured/ Mary Rowlandson -- New York and environs/ Jaspar Danckaerts and Peter Sluyter -- Harvard students/ Jaspar Danckaerts and Peter Sluyter -- Trial of "witches" Susannah Martin and Mary Lacey/ Ezekiel Cheever and Cotton Mather -- Freedom of the press/ John Peter Zenger -- The march of the Acadians during the French and Indian war/ Colonel John Winslow -- James Otis starts a fire/ John Adams -- A mob confronts a stamp distributor/ Francis Fauquier -- Franklin argues against the Stamp Act in the British Parliament/ Unofficial transcript -- The Boston massacre/ John Tudor -- The Bostn tea party/ John Andrews -- The First Continental Congress/ John Adams -- Patrick Henry's speech/ Edmund Randolph -- Lanterns in the North Church steeple/ Paul Revere -- Standoff at Lexington/ Jonas Clark -- The shot heard 'round the world/ William Emerson -- Washington is chosen for command/ John Adams -- Jefferson is selected to writed the Declaration of Independence/ John Adams -- Young Jefferson gets some advice from Ben Franklin/ Thomas Jefferson -- The Declaration's missing clause/ Thomas Jefferson -- Signing the Declaration/ Dr. Benjamin Rush -- Recruiting trouble/ Captain Alexander Graydon -- Winter at Valley Forge/ Dr. Albigence Waldo -- Yankees invade Great Britain/ Captain John Paul Jones -- John Paul Jones refuses to surrender/ Lieutenant Richard Dale -- Cornwallis surrenders/ Lt. General Charles, Marquis Cornwallis -- The eve of the Constitutional Convention/ George Mason -- Last-minute dissenters ant the Constitutional Convention/ James Madison -- Jefferson at the White House/ Margaret Bayard Smith -- The Bathtub Dictator sells Louisiana/ Lucien Bonaparte -- Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton/ Nathaniel Pendleton and William P. Van Ness -- Lewis and Clark head to the Pacific/ Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- First voyage of the Clermont/ H. Freeland -- Tecumseh/William Henry Harrison -- Dolley Madison saves Washington's Portrait/ Dolley Madison -- Uninvited guists find dinner at the White House/ George Robert Gleig -- Public amusements in New Orleans/ Henry Bradshaw Fearon -- Calhoun and the Missouri Compromise/ John Quincy Adams |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-667) and index. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Colbert, David.
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| ISBN |
067976724X paperback $16.00 ($21.95 Can.) |
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9780679767244 paperback |
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