In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper reaches of the New York colony. Caught in a devastating ambush by Fre
Public rituals have always held a vital place in American culture. By far the noisiest and most popular of these to emerge in the nation's early years was Independence Day. After a decade of fitful st
In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper reaches of the New York colony. Caught in a devastating ambush by Fre
Did you know the Puritans did not celebrate Christmas? Or that trick or treating on Halloween began in the late 1930s? Every holiday has a history, and this book sets out to tell it.
The reader gets to choose between becoming a patriot, a British solider, or a Boston civilian during the American Revolution, in a book where the outcomes and experiences are based upon real people an
Cotton (1640-99), pastor of the church at Plymouth from 1667 to 1697, wrote to famous and less-illustrious people through the New England colonies and in England herself. The hundreds of surviving let
