Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In “A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1”, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in nineteenth-century historical writing.

Though first published over a hundred years ago, "Home Life in Colonial Days" is filled with usefulness and vitality. In her wonderfully readable narrative, Alice Morse Earle provides a fascinating description of everyday life -- the chores, the tools, the dwelling places, the foods, the sights and sounds -- that Colonial Americans knew. Tough not a history of Colonial America, "Home Life in Colonial Days" contains many interesting tidbits about our...

Thorough history of legal, institutional and administrative aspects of life in the colonies. For contents, see Author Catalog.