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James Grant was an early pioneer within America. His life story is set within the context of a rapidly changing society in the second half of the 19th century. In that period slavery was rampant; huge numbers of new immigrants continued to arrive from Europe; people began to travel into the vast interior, which opened the west; a brutal civil war ravaged the country; railroads were established nationwide; financial depression hindered growth; and two US Presidents were murdered.He witnessed at first hand slaves working on southern plantations. He led a wagon train west across the expanse of the Great Plains. He built businesses in Wyoming and in Kansas. He inherited a ranch in Texas, where he also found true love. He had financial successes, and a reputation damaging failure. Later in life he worked to help immigrants settle in New York, where his actions created dangerous enemies.James Grant was without question a man whose stoicism and above all his humanity shine through his life story.

When three Yale classmates -- David Bushnell, Nathan Hale, and Benjamin Tallmadge -- leave their world of classical education at Yale College, they embark on a hero's journey by joining the American Revolution in 1776. One fights underwater, another on the battlefield, and the other as a spy for General George Washington. Their lives will never be the same as they battle to save their homes on Connecticut and New York's Long Island from tyranny. The Submarine and the Spies is a timely book for ages 12 and up for America's 250th anniversary. Ideal for middle and high school classrooms, book clubs and personal reading for adults.

The story behind the legend...Long before Betsy Ross became a national icon for making the first US flag, she was a quiet Quaker girl swept up against her will by events leading to the American Revolution.Philadelphia, 1770. Eighteen-year-old Betsy Griscom falls in love with a man her parents can't accept-non-Quaker John Ross, whose family has strong ties to powerful colonial government offices. Despite Betsy's best intentions to stay within the safety of her Quaker world, Betsy marries John and dreams of an untroubled life with him and their future children.Betsy's hopes are dashed when the colonies begin to openly and violently rebel against the British crown. Taught to be peace-loving and non-violent, Betsy watches helplessly as her husband becomes a militiaman and joins the resistance movement, taking them closer and closer towards chaos and revolutionary war.When shots ring out at Lexington and Concord, Betsy realizes she can no longer be neutral. She finds herself fully entrenched in the turmoil of America's first civil war, inching closer to treason.

Offers an overview of strategic skirmishes and overlooked battles alongside profiles of the contemporary masters of irregular warfare during the 18th century.Histories of the Seven Years War or French and Indian War tend to concentrate on the larger engagements. In the European theater, the attention goes to Rossbach and Leuthen (1757) or Minden (1759). By the same token, in the North American theater, historians tend to dedicate the most time to engagements such as the Battle of the Monongahela (1755), the attack on Fort Carillon (1758), later renamed Ticonderoga, or the battle on the Plains of Abraham (1759). One consequence of this focus on the larger engagements has been a general tendency to overlook the more constant war of raids, ambushes and scouting that pervaded in both theaters, what contemporaries referred to as the petite guerre or kleine krieg.Light Troops in the Seven Years War fills this gap by examining not only the conduct of these smaller, but at times operationally and even strategically significant engagements. It draws parallels between the theaters as well. The work surveys the development of irregular troops, sometimes referred to as light infantry, on both continents over the course of the eighteenth century. It goes to provide examples of these troops in action in the Seven Years War. Thus, the focus shifts from the major engagements listed above to smaller encounters such as the ambushes at Gundersdorf and Domstadtl (1758) in Europe. The raid constituted a relatively small attack, but one that had major operational, even strategic consequences. In the North American theater, the raid on Fort Bull in 1756 is examined, again, an often-overlooked engagement, but one with a significant impact, nonetheless.The book likewise highlights the careers of various practitioners, recognized by contemporaries, as masters at the conduct of irregular warfare. These figures include Johann Ewald, Andreas Graf Hadik von Futak, Simon-Claude Grassin de Glatigny, Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry, Graf Nikolas von Luckner, Johann von Monkewitz and Robert Rogers.

In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses, was a common device used by enslavers to dehumanize and otherwise reduce the existence of the enslaved. Letters, memoirs, and philosophical treatises of the enslaved and formerly enslaved bear testament to the methods used to dehumanize them. In Empire of Brutality, Christopher Michael Blakley explores how material relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the intellectual dehumanization of the enslaved. By reconsidering dehumanization in the light of human-animal relations, Blakley offers new insights into the horrific institution later challenged by Black intellectuals in multiple ways. Using the correspondence of the Royal African Company, specimen catalogs and scientific papers of the Royal Society, plantation inventories and manuals, and diaries kept by slaveholders, Blakley describes human-animal networks spanning from Britain's slave castles and outposts throughout western Africa to plantations in the Caribbean and American Southeast. They combine approaches from environmental history, history of science, and philosophy to examine slavery from the ground up and from the perspectives of the enslaved. Blakley's work reveals how African captives who became commodified through exchanges of cowry sea snails between slavers in the Bight of Benin later went on to collect zoological specimens in Barbados and Virginia for institutions such as the Royal Society. On plantations, where enslaved people labored alongside cattle, donkeys, horses, and other animals to make the agricultural fortunes of slaveholders, Blakley shows how the enslaved resisted these human-animal pairings by stealing animals for their own purposes--such as fugitives who escaped their slaveholder's grasp by riding stolen horses. Because of experiences like these, writers and thinkers of African descent who survived slavery later attacked the institution in public as fundamentally dehumanizing, one that corrupted the humanity of both slaveholders and the enslaved.

Nicholas Ackley was an early settler of Hartford and a founder of Haddam, CT. This book traces the lives of the second through the fourth generations of this family in Connecticut and New York: James Ackley, Nicholas Ackley, and Abel Ackley. The narrative uses the culture and norms of their times to help understand the lives of these ancestors and to solve puzzles created by sparse official records.The book contains all the reliable documentation for these families and debunks persistent myths about the ancestry of some of the women. Details include the true story about the witchcraft allegation that involved James's sister; the involvement of Nicholas, three of his sons and other Connecticut Ackleys in the French and Indian War; and the record of Abel's service in the Revolutionary War.

By: Albert Cook Myers, Pub. 1955, reprinted 2023, 124 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-082-4. The region that these land surveys cover was called the West Side Delaware River. It ran from New Castle County, Delaware up to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This book should make a nice addition to anyone's collection researching in this are along the Delaware River.

"New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father's duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son's name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband's papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state. Hamilton was accused of stealing that money, and it was a scandal that almost broke the family--but is Eliza now holding proof of Alexander's innocence? Deep in debt and despair, with eight children to support, Eliza turns to selling her handmade lace--and is drawn into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who are intimately connected to New York's high-society families. They know their dead husbands' secrets--and soon, Eliza begins to piece together the truth. There's a dark plot connected with the duel, as one by one, witnesses to thebout are being killed. Now, Eliza must not only clear her husband's and son's names but keep herself out of the killer's sights."--Publisher marketing.

"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Mâedâeric Louis âElie Moreau de Saint-Mâery is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopâedie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

Beware of doorways through time... and a fool's gold Amelia Spencer, reluctant time traveler, has two goals: settle down with Henry, and get a cat. Hunted by Casper, Amelia and Henry tumble back in time to late 1755. Surviving Braddock's March was easier than being hunted by former so-called friend. A drought has devastated crops throughout the colony. Attacks on frontier homesteads are on the rise. And Lord and Lady Spencer have a little problem with safekeeping their stash of Blackbeard's treasure.How will she keep her newfound family safe from enemies close-to-home and dangers on the frontier?The Time Writer and The Hunt is a Historical Time Travel Adventure exploring the struggles of the Colonial Virginia frontier and the hidden treasures of the past, through the wit and mindset of a 21st Century woman.¿The Time Writer Series:Prequel: The Time Writer and The Cloak ebook and audiobook available for free download to newsletter subscribers https://bit.ly/CloakB3 , paperbackSeason 1 - 1750s VirginiaBook 1: The Time Writer and The Notebook Book 2: The Time Writer and The March Book 3: The Time Writer and The Hunt Season 2 - 1690s - The Golden Age of PiracyBook 1: The Time Writer and The Escape Book 2: The Time Writer and The Chase (Release January 2024)Book 3: The Time Writer and The Surrender (Release May 2024)

WE CALL THEM the Pilgrims, faded by history into a faceless, irrelevant group of nameless religious radicals who came to America to worship God. Sometimes hailed as heros, other times denigrated as illiterate, who were these faded, faceless people who lived more than four hundred years ago? In Saints and Strangers - The Great American Story, Paulette Packard Johnson delves into the human-ness of the Pilgrims, and explores what it would have been like for the individuals who made the treacherous voyage into history.

Our passion for freedom runs deep.Two hundred years before the War for Independence, Settlers of the New World engaged in acts of defiance that ultimately led to the American Revolution. Revolutions tend to be brutal affairs, as you'll learn in Seeds of Liberty.International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, brings you this non-fiction companion guide to his bestselling fictional series, The Boston Brahmin. "Truly inspiring and a must read for American patriots!" -Reader Review The Loyal Nine, the predecessors to the Sons of Liberty, are examined in detail within this book. When given the opportunity to fundamentally change the course of America, these nine brave Bostonians faced a choice - continue to live under tyranny or choose freedom. They chose freedom and the seeds of liberty were planted by freedom loving immigrants looking to create a new world that is now America.; THE BOSTON BRAHMIN, Akart's bestselling series where political suspense collides with post-apocalyptic fiction, is a story rich in history, modern politics and a timeless love of country featuring characters with the fortitude to protect America no matter the cost.The Boston Brahmin series begins with The Loyal Nine, a gripping novel of an America teetering on the edge of economic and societal collapse."A political masterpiece." -Reader ReviewWith over sixty novels published in 245 countries and territories worldwide, Bobby Akart delivers intense, up-all-night thrillers to millions of readers who find themselves whispering just one more chapter until the end.

The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia traces the hidden history of a Huguenot emigrant community established along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand.

"An expansive, transformative, and empowering book [that] shares the history of the witch, her magick, and persecution with reverence and respect . . . You will come to understand the witch and her world in a way that feels personal and inviting." --Gabriela Herstik, author of Bewitching the Elements and Inner Witch Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollée explores the places and people significant to the early modern legacy of the witch. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, a confluence of political, economic, and religious factors ignited a wildfire of witch hysteria in Europe and, later, in parts of America. At the heart of these witch hunts were often dangerous misconceptions about femininity and female sexuality, and women were disproportionately punished as a result. Today, this lineage of oppression remains a vital reference point in the fight for women's rights--and human rights--in the Western world and beyond. By infusing an adventurous first-person narrative with extensive research and moments of imaginative historical fiction, Sollée makes an often-overlooked period of history come alive. Written for armchair travelers and on-the-ground explorers alike, Witch Huntnot only uncovers the horrors of history but also reveals how the archetype of the witch has been rehabilitated. For witches are not just haunting figures of the past; the witch is also a liberatory icon and identity of the present. In this paperback edition, the author has included a new afterword and updated the travel resources section.

Award recognition for book one of the Cupids trilogy, A Roll of the Bones ***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***SILVER, THE MIRAMICHI READER'S THE VERY BEST! COVER ART/DESIGN AWARD*** This dramatic conclusion to a trilogy foregrounds the experiences of women settlers in North America as they grapple with notions of homeland, colonization, and sense of belonging. A Company of Rogues completes the Cupids trilogy, moving the action back to the New Found Land seven years after John Guy's colonists first settled Cupids Cove. After their wanderings across the ocean, Ned and Nancy are united--but will the shores of New Found Land provide a permanent home? Kathryn and Nicholas Guy join the effort to found a second colony at Bristol's Hope, but their work is threatened by a shadowy enemy who holds a dangerous power over Kathryn. And a newcomer to the colony, the Wampanoag traveller Tisquantum, settles among the English colonists, challenging their beliefs about the New World they have come to settle and the people who call it home.

When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar gardens through the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes region. In A Not-So-New World, Christopher Parsons observes how it was that French colonists began to learn about Native environments and claimed a mandate to cultivate vegetation that did not differ all that much from that which they had left behind.As Parsons relates, colonists soon discovered that there were limits to what they could accomplish in their gardens. The strangeness of New France became woefully apparent, for example, when colonists found that they could not make French wine out of American grapes. They attributed the differences they discovered to Native American neglect and believed that the French colonial project would rehabilitate and restore the plant life in the region. However, the more colonists experimented with indigenous species and communicated their findings to the wider French Atlantic world, the more foreign New France appeared to French naturalists and even to the colonists themselves.Parsons demonstrates how the French experience of attempting to improve American environments supported not only the acquisition and incorporation of Native American knowledge but also the development of an emerging botanical science that focused on naming new species. Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the environment to better resemble the country they left behind, A Not-So-New World reveals that French colonial ambitions were fueled by a vision of an ecologically sustainable empire.

"In this first volume of a planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge itself was commodified, starting in the late eighteenth century. Nelson follows the market transformation in the age of revolutions to show how American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism, Nelson opens up an array of questions: How do we distinguish between knowledge and education as goods? Are they public or private? What determines their prices? In the most fundamental sense, what is the optimal system of higher education in a capitalist democracy? The answers have jarring relevance today"--

Based on True Events - Step back in time and embark on a captivating journey alongside Mary Brewster, a steadfast Christian woman whose unwavering faith and indomitable spirit shaped the destiny of a new world. In this gripping historical fiction, delve into the extraordinary life of Mary Brewster, wife of William Brewster of the famous Mayflower landing of pilgrims in search of religious freedom.As the Mayflower sets sail across uncharted waters, Mary finds herself not merely as a passenger, but as a pillar of strength for her family and fellow travelers. Amidst the harsh trials of the perilous journey, she embodies the essence of a woman's duty, nurturing hope and compassion within the confines of a cramped and tempest-tossed vessel. The tempests of the ocean mirror the storms of life, and Mary's steadfast faith becomes an anchor for those aboard, fortifying them against uncertainty and despair.Within the confines of the ship's quarters, Mary's resilience is tested as she confronts profound loss, physical hardships, and the overwhelming responsibility of being the wife of a religious leader. Alongside William Brewster, she embraces the challenges of the new world, facing harsh winters, unfamiliar cultures, and disease with grace and determination.Through the vividly painted canvas of history, this tale immerses you in the vibrant tapestry of emotions that defined the lives of these early settlers. It sheds light on the forgotten strength of women, whose sacrifices and contributions were the cornerstones of building a better future for generations to come.Mary Brewster's Love Life is an inspiring testament to the power of faith, love (of God, husband, children and neighbors) and perseverance. It celebrates the triumphs and tribulations of a woman who defied the odds, leaving an indelible mark on the pages of history. Join Mary Brewster on an odyssey that will stir your soul and remind you that through faith and courage, even the most challenging voyages can lead to the most extraordinary destinations.