Provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play. P. 48 has ill. and description of the scissors of Melicent Barrett, a Concord woman who used the scissors to make musket cartridges.

Colonial American History Stories - 1770 - 1774 contains almost 200 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1767 with the birth of Andrew Jackson and and ends with George Rogers Clark receiving his first military commission in 1774. This journal of historical events mark the beginnings of the United States These reader friendly stories include:March 05, 1770 Boston Massacre - British Troops Kill Five In CrowdDecember 05, 1770 - Boston...

Leaving behind his Boston childhood, Benjamin Franklin reinvents himself in Philadelphia where he builds a printing empire and a new life with his wife Deborah. Turning to science, Franklin gains worldwide fame from his lightning rod and experiments in electricity. After entering politics, he spends years in London trying to keep Britain and America together as his own family starts to come apart.

Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, is called "Satanas" by friend and enemy alike. In the aristocratic circles of London and Louis XV's Paris, he has a reputation as a dangerous and debauched rake. Late one evening, the Duke stumbles upon Léon, a red-headed urchin fleeing a beating at his brutal brother's hands. On a whim, Avon buys the boy and makes him his page. But it soon becomes clear that Léon is not what he seems. When the grubby Léon turns out...

This 1878 installment in John Morley's English “Men of Letters” Series sympathetically reviews the life and works of the Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. Black defends Goldsmith by reviewing his education, travel, personal traits, literature, and the difficulties he faced along the way.

The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among...

The book that established Thomas Carlyle's reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction, The French Revolution...

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Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.