Introduction to U.S. history of the Colonial period, with projects to help readers in their understanding.

Colonial Living is a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America; of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel winters; the snug Dutch and Flemish farmhouses of New Amsterdam; the homes of the early planters in the South which would...