Edmund S Morgan
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 278 p. : frontis. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft.
Author
Series
Williamsburg in America volume 2
Publisher
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Pub. Date
[1952]
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Family life in the eighteenth century.
Author
Series
Harper torchbooks. Academy library volume TB1227L
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1966]
Edition
New ed., rev. and enl.
Physical Desc
x, 196 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin distills the complex and passionate intellectual strivings of the man whom David Hume called the first philosopher and great man of letters of the New World. Benjamin Franklin was a true renaissance man. A statesman and a diplomat, (he wa the person to sign all four major documents of the founding of America - The Declaration of Indepence, the Constitution, the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the Treary of...
Author
Series
Harper torchbooks. Academy library volume TB1228G
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1965, c1946]
Physical Desc
xv, 125 p. 21 cm.
Language
English