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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. Places her life as an orphan, a young wife in rural Virginia, a slaveholder, a widow, and mother to the first president in the context of the changing economic circumstances and cultural values of colonial Virginia and a young nation"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled city on a hill. Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the...
Author
Series
Jamestown 350th anniversary historical booklet volume no. 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A permanent settlement was the objective. Support, financial and popular, came from a cross section of English life. It seems obvious from accounts and papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was being settled for the glory of God, for the honor of the King, for the welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its individual members.
Author
Series
The historical writings of John Fiske volume 4-5
Publisher
Riverside Press
Pub. Date
1897
Language
English
Series
Special publication volume no. 30
Publisher
Archeological Society of Virginia
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country's formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of America'ss earliest founding fathers: those who paved the way for the Colonial Era, and the American Revolution. They were explorers, investors, passionate religious leaders, and determined developers who struggled for generations to successfully plant the English flag in this strange new soil ... The infancy...
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