Current Series Catalogue
The
Colonial Life
Colonial Williamsburg receives complaints each year - Why don't
you keep up the paint on the frame buildings so they look nicer?
Why are so many of the people in plain clothing? The streets are
unpaved and the cobblestones are hard to walk on! The goal of
authenticity is often thwarted by the demands of a modern population
who prefer a gentler version of history. This series allows us to
take off our rose colored glasses and experience the superstitions,
hardships, and uncertainty of Colonial America.
Robert R. McCammon, Speaks the Nightbird
In 1699, legal clerk Matthew Corbett accompanies magistrate Isaac
Woodward to Fount Royal, Carolina, where he has been summoned to
decide whether a witch is living in the newly established settlement.
Full of historical detail, re-creating the legal procedures, medical
practices, and everyday existence of the time.
Cecilia M. Kenyon, Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists
on the Nature of Representative Government
During a scholarly career that extended from the late 1940s to the
mid-1980s, Cecelia Kenyon wrote a series of essays and reviews that
reshaped thinking about the American Revolution and its aftermath.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne's masterpiece about Hester Prynne, hapless victim of sin,
guilt and hypocrisy in Puritan New England.
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Albert E. Stone, Letters
from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America
Published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer paints a vivid
portrait of the American scene, from New England seafaring life
to Southern plantation culture. More popular abroad than at home,
the work provided Europeans with their chief impression of American
landscapes, peoples, institutions, values, and problems.
James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man
The author unflinchingly paints a portrait of Washington: slave
owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce
general.
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