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Author: William Chauncy Langdon
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines various aspects and items of everyday life in early America, from 1607 to 1876, including homes, furniture, farms, bridges, clothing, and metals; and discusses what those things reveal about the country's citizens.
Author: William Chauncy Langdon
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bill Lawrence
Publisher: Walch Publishing
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780825127076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides telling insights into American history through scores of personality profiles, anecdotes, advertisements, and more Includes sources and references for use in independent study
Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-08-26
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0307416860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.
Author: United States. Army Library Service
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Office of Education
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-08-13
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0375703462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter—not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.
Author: Keith Stavely
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006-03-08
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0807876720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald's culinary history reveals the complex and colorful origins of New England foods and cookery. Featuring hosts of stories and recipes derived from generations of New Englanders of diverse backgrounds, America's Founding Food chronicles the region's cuisine, from the English settlers' first encounter with Indian corn in the early seventeenth century to the nostalgic marketing of New England dishes in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the traditional foods of the region--including beans, pumpkins, seafood, meats, baked goods, and beverages such as cider and rum--the authors show how New Englanders procured, preserved, and prepared their sustaining dishes. Placing the New England culinary experience in the broader context of British and American history and culture, Stavely and Fitzgerald demonstrate the importance of New England's foods to the formation of American identity, while dispelling some of the myths arising from patriotic sentiment. At once a sharp assessment and a savory recollection, America's Founding Food sets out the rich story of the American dinner table and provides a new way to appreciate American history.
Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780742521735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating and lucid narrative of America's revolutionary generation, Jefferson's America takes the reader from the earliest rumblings of colonial dissent, through the crises of revolution and nation-making, to the heroic drama of the War of 1812. Risjord deftly weaves together strands of biography and social history with military and political history to depict the rich fabric of the young republic.
Author: Merril D. Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-08-28
Total Pages: 1013
ISBN-13: 1440830282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume set brings to life the daily thoughts and routines of men and women—rich and poor, of various cultures, religions, races, and beliefs—during a time of great political, social, economic, and legal turmoil. What was life really like for ordinary people during the American Revolution? What did they eat, wear, believe in, and think about? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia explores the lives of men, women, and children—of European, Native American, and African descent—through the window of social, cultural, and material history. The two-volume set spans the period from 1774 to 1800, drawing on the most current research to illuminate people's emotional lives, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, and intimate relationships, as well as connections between the individual and the greater world. The encyclopedia features more than 200 entries divided into topical sections, each dealing with a different aspect of cultural life—for example, Arts, Food and Drink, and Politics and Warfare. Each section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on various aspects of the subject area. Sidebars and primary documents enhance the learning experience. Targeting high school and college students, the title supports the American history core curriculum and the current emphasis on social history. Most importantly, its focus on the realities of daily life, rather than on dates and battles, will help students identify with and learn about this formative period of American history.
