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Central Wisconsin History Collaborative A Teaching American History Grant Project
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Colonial America
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Waters, Kate, Sarah Morton’s Day, Scholastic: 1989. Text and photographs of Plymouth Plantation follow a Pilgrim girl through a typical day as she milks the goats, cooks and serves meals, learns her letters, and adjusts to her new stepfather. RL3.4
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...If You Lived in Colonial Times, Ann McGovern (Scholastic Inc., 1992). Tells you what it was like to live in the New England colonies during the years 1565 to 1776. RL4.1 |
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Mary Geddy's Day: A Colonial Girl in Williamsburg, Kate Waters (Scholastic Inc., 2002). A fictionalized account of one day in the life of a colonial girl in Colonial Williamsburg on the day that the colony of Virginia cast its vote for independence from Great Britain. RL3.7 |
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Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy, Kate Waters (Scholastic Inc., 1996). Text and photographs follow a six-year-old Pilgrim boy through a busy day during the spring harvest in 1627: doing chores, getting to know his Wampanoag Indian neighbors, and spending time with his family. RL4 |
| Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of
American Society, Mary Beth Norton, (1996).
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| American Colonies, Alan Taylor, (2001).
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| The Spanish Frontier in North America, David J. Weber,
(1992).
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| Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New
England, William Cronon, (1983).
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| Witches of the Atlantic World: A Historical Reader and Primary
Source Book, Elaine G. Breslaw, (2000).
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| Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of
Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795, Elizabeth
A.H. John, (1975).
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| The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great
Lakes Region, 1650-1815, Richard White, (1991).
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| The Name of War: King Phillip's War and the Origins of American
Identity, Jill Lepore (1998).
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| The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from the
European Contract Through the Era of Removal, James H. Merrell,
(1989).
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| Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North
America, Ira Berlin, (1998).
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| Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race,
and Power in Colonial Virginia, Kathleen M. Brown, (1996).
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| How Did American Slavery Begin?, Edward Countryman, ed.,
(1999).
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| Liberty of Conscience and the Growth of Religious Diversity in
Early America, 1636-1786, Carla Gardina Pestana, (1987).
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| Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen,
Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750, Marcus
Rediker (1987).
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Jamestown and the Virginia Experiment The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony. http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
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