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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Why is Tom Brady the G.O.A.T. in football? This entertaining book lays out the facts: he's already led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories, received three league MVP awards, bested any previous quarterback in helping his team win division titles, and set records in passes and touchdowns. And Brady's still in the game at age 41! Young fans will love debating Brady's place in football history.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"You may have heard of the Mayflower. The ship set sail in 1620, carrying English pilgrims across the sea to Plymouth. But did you know that science played a big role in this voyage? Learn how the Mayflower was constructed. Find out how science helped sail the ship across the ocean. And discover how modern technology is being used to understand the journey and the people aboard"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: a fresh look at the aggressive expansionist Puritans in New England and the determined Narragansett Indians, who refused to back down and accept English authority over people and their land."--Amazon.
484) Maggie's choice
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 8
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of a young slave girl in Boston as well as a religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening prompt Maggie to make an important decision.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 400 pages : illlustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their childhood in Braintree, Massachusetts. Raised as loyal British...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A study of sexual politics in 19th century New England through the life of one woman"--
Martha Parker was a gifted young New England woman, aspiring to become an educator and a foreign missionary. Late in 1825 she accepted a proposal from a schoolmaster, Thomas Tenney, only to reject him several weeks later for a rival suitor: Elnathan Gridley, a clergyman headed for the mission field. Tenney's male friends, deeply resentful of the new prominence...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
True story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of the French and Indian war. Examines the period in American history when French Catholicism vied for control of the frontier with English Protestantism, and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston--who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts, with a collection of scalps--passed into legend.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
473 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"American politics is not just a combination of high ideals and low cunning. It is also the story of thousands of local influencers, fixers, activists, and run-of-the-mill voters who shape the destinies of candidates. It's about the flawed and ambitious people who become candidates and must first grind it out for one vote at a time, if they want to ascend to the nation's highest office. Nowhere is this more true, and more carefully preserved, than...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of our separate and unequal America in the making, and one man's fight against it. During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of Connecticut, a state that permitted public access to a mere seven miles of its 253-mile shoreline. Nearly all...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 302 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and their role in the American Revolution-- the myth and the reality. A rare look at a corner of the Revolutionary War. In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the...
493) Deliberate evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem's influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen. A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more newsworthy. Meanwhile, young Salem native Nathaniel Hawthorne...
494) Imagining Ichabod: my journey into 18th-century America through history, food, and a Georgian house
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxii, 408 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working- class citizens to wield their political...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 296 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic untold 'people's history' of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution"--
"The story of the Boston Massacre-- when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death-- is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Historian Serena Zabin weaves colorful stories...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York mansion and Saratoga Springs summer home, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she acquired a fortune from...
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