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Summary: Explores the everyday life of a colonial doctor and his responsibilities, social practices, and importance to the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610.973 MARPetersen, Christine.
Summary: Explores the everyday life of a colonial miller and his responsibilities, social practices, and importance to the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 664.72 PETPetersen, Christine.
Summary: "Explore the life of a colonial apothecary and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615 PETErdosh, George
Summary: Describes some of the foods prepared in the various areas of what would become the United States during the colonial period. Includes recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5973 ERDMara, Wil.
Summary: "Explore the life of a colonial silversmith and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 739.23 MARSpilsbury, Louise
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 SPIFisher, Leonard Everett.
Summary: Introduces the history of blacksmithing and discusses the techniques, products, well-known blacksmiths, and commercial importance of this trade in colonial America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 682 FISMarrin, Albert.
Summary: A fast-paced account of the life and times of the man who became the first president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WASHINGTON MARMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living in Colonial America? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more!"--OverDrive website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Hinderaker, Eric.
Summary: "In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world - a Mohawk leader known in English as King Hendrick - died in the Battle of Lake George. He was fighting the French in defense of British claims to North America, and his death marked the end of an era in Anglo-Iroquois relations. He was not the first Mohawk of that name to attract international attention. Half a century earlier, another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7004 HINEckert, Allan W.
Summary: For over two hundred years no Indian force in America was so powerful and feared as the Iroquois League. Throughout two thirds of this continent, the cry of "The Iroquois are coming!" was enough to demoralize entire tribes. But these Iroquois occupied and controlled a vast wilderness empire which beckoned like a precious gem to foreign powers. France and England secured toeholds and suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ECKMcGovern, Ann.
Summary: Describes what it was like to live in the New England colonies during the years 1565 to 1776.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974 MCGSummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Isaacs, Sally Senzell
Summary: Investigates life in the thirteen original colonies, the events that led to the American Revolution, the war itself, and the early years of independence up to the adoption of the Constitution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEFBordessa, Kris.
Summary: A history of the exploration and colonization of America also provides activities related to the daily lives and social customs of the settlers and explorers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 OSBHamen, Susan E.
Summary: Describes how the original thirteen colonies came to form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Describes a day in the life of a colonial silversmith, what he made and how he made it, and his dealings with his apprentices and customers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 739.23 WILBunker, Nick.
Summary: A British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and economics on both sides of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BUNCatton, Bruce
Summary: Examines the history of America from Columbus' explorations and the colonial era through the War of 1812.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CATMcDougall, Walter A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2004