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Father Sebastian Rasle: Jesuit Missionary of Maine

By: Feature Writer Lorri Mealey

George Washington and the Mount Vernon Compact: Meeting About Potomac Canal Paved Way For Constitutional Convention

By: Jim Rada

George Washington's First Presidency: The Patowmack Canal Sought to Make the Potomac River Navigable

By: Jim Rada

George Washington's Dream: Making Water Run Uphill

By: Jim Rada

America's Canal Age: Canals Helped Open Up the West

By: Jim Rada

Was the Revolution Conservative? Boorstin Says Revolution Was Not as Revolutionary as Commonly Held

By: Michael Frizzell

Religious Freedom--Plymouth Colony: Separatists' Pilgrimage to the New World

By: Jeannie Delahunt

The Dutch Influence on New York: Holland’s Impact on Street and Place Names in the Big Apple

By: Cecily Layzell

Bejnamin Franklin and Slavery: Benjamin Franklin's changing perspective

By: S.K.F. Heise

Origins of American Copyright Law: English Creator's Law Provided the Foundation for U.S. Law

By: Michael Frizzell

Martha Washington: First Lady: First American President's Wife: 'Lady Washington'

By: Anya Laurence

Women of the American Revolution: Taking Up Arms

By: Megan L. Oakley

Mercy Warren: Caustic Propagandist: Primary Influential Inflammatory Author of the Colonial Revolution

By: Jeannie Delahunt

Whaling Art and Entertainment: Scrimshanting and Gamming--Indigenous, Seafaring Recreation

By: Jeannie Delahunt

Abigail Adams: The Incomplete Revolutionary

By: Megan L. Oakley

Roots of U.S. Political Polls: Presidential Polls in Colonial America and the Early 1900s

By: Dennis Jamison

Sperm Whales Ram Whalers: Sea Tragedies--the Sinking of the Essex and the Anne Alexander

By: Jeannie Delahunt

Mocha Dick--Moby Dick: Myths? History of Herman Melville's Legendary Sperm Whale Terrors

By: Jeannie Delahunt

America's First Government: Balancing National and State Powers in the Articles of Confederation

By: James Hogan

Deborah Samson: The Life of a Female Soldier During the American Revolution

By: Jennifer Harrison-Konz

Colonial Williamsburg: A Planned Community in Early America

By: Jennifer Harrison-Konz

Colonial Whaling: A Risky Business: The Occupation of Catching the Precious Oil Denizens of the Deep

By: Jeannie Delahunt

Rachel Wall:Notorious Woman Pirate: Iniquitous, Colonial Woman Cutthroat of Massachusetts

By: Jeannie Delahunt

The Articles of Confederation: The Conflict Between National Union and State Independence

By: James Hogan

Colonial New England Maritime: Celebrated, Northeast Culture, Businesses, Ports and Legends

By: Jeannie Delahunt

Colonial Women Warriors: Deborah Read Franklin and Deborah Sampson, Diehard Heroines

By: Jeannie Delahunt

The 1814 Pemmican War: How a Traditional Native American Food Started a War

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

Colonial St. Patrick's Day: America's Irish Holiday has Protestant and British Roots

By: Jacqueline T Lynch

The Pre-Washington U.S. Presidency: Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

American Colonies Book Review: History of the United States

By: Christine Musser

Leap Day Deerfield Massacre: 1704 Raid on on the Massachusetts Frontier

By: Jacqueline T Lynch

Eliza Pinckney: Talented Teenager: South Carolina's Colonial, Indigo Industry, Entrepreneur

By: Jeannie Delahunt

Susanna Johnson's Captivity: New Hampshire Indian Raid During the French and Indian War, Fort-4.

By: Jeannie Delahunt

James Hoban Biography: The Irish Architect of the American White House

By: Michael Rowland

General Charles Lee: His Successes, Failures, and Treasons During the Revolutionary War

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

The Betsy Ross Controversy: Evidence for the Delegation of Three and the First American Flag

By: Samuel Z Jones

Benjamin Franklin, Scientist: Franklin’s Use of the Scientific Method in 18th-Century France

By: James Hogan

Colonial Wars: European Empires Clash in the American Colonies

By: Christine Musser

Queen Anne's War: Great Britain, France, and Spain

By: Christine Musser

Colonial Women and Colonial Politics: Inspired Daughters of Liberty Support the Revolutionary Cause

By: Jeannie Delahunt

French and Indian War: Louis XIV Battles King William III in North America

By: Christine Musser

Washington's New Birthday: George Washington and the Gregorian Calendar

By: Jacqueline T Lynch

Colonial Christmas Traditions: Early American Holiday Customs

By: Feature Writer Lorri Mealey

The Invention of Slavery: Colonial Virginia

By: Timothy P. O'Hanlon

General George Washington: The Greatness of America's First General

By: Feature Writer Brian Tubbs

Causes of the American Revolution: Misconceptions Regarding the Role of Taxes in War of Independence

By: Feature Writer Brian Tubbs

Great Books on Early America: David McCullough, Joseph Ellis, et al bring Revolution to Life

By: Feature Writer Brian Tubbs

Land Speculation: Land Speculators Helped to Shape America

By: John Crandall

Plymouth, Puritans, Penn, Quakers, Puritans Founded Plymouth and William Penn Founded Pennslyvania

By: John Crandall

George Washington's Early Years: The Tender Years of the Man on the Dollar Bill

By: Henry Ramsager

The Tobacco Culture: John Rolfe's Importation of Tobacco Saved Jamestown

By: John Crandall

Jamestown, First English Town: In 1607 Englishmen Established a Permanent Settlement

By: John Crandall

Father Junipero Serra: Franciscan Missionary to California Indians

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Tituba, the Salem Slave: Telling Fortunes and Baking a Witch Cake

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Bridget Bishop of Salem: The Witch with the Scarlet Bodice

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Growing Up in Salem, Massachusetts: Puritan Children Rebelling Against Adult Rule

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Cotton Mather: Witch Trials in Salem and Boston

By: Mary Trotter Kion

William Penn: The Quakers in America

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Henry Hudson: Adventurer, Sea Captain, and Explorer

By: Mary Trotter Kion

First Voyage of Henry Hudson: Greenland and Hope For the Northwest Passage

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Henry Hudson and Icebergs: Perils of Early Sailing Ships

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Washington’s Cherry Tree: Legend or Fact?

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Pocahontas: Daughter of Powhatan Possibly Saves John Smith

By: Mary Trotter Kion

The Capture of Pocahontas: British Sea Captain Holds Indian Princes Captive

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Captain John Smith: Settling Jamestown, Being Enslaved, Fighting Pirates

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Starving Winter of 1609/1610: The Women of Jamestown

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Speedwell and Mayflower: 1620 Voyage to the New World

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Young George Washington: Early Family Life Near the Potomac River

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Native American Names: Werowances, Matoaka, and Texas

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Brewsters Leave England: Puritan Beliefs Lead to Prison

By: Mary Trotter Kion

Jamestown, Virginia: The First Permanent English Colony

By: Mary Trotter Kion

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