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Inside the Vault: Maps of Colonial America
While colonial era maps of North America are often inaccurate representations of the geography, they do give us insight into how Europeans viewed the Western Hemisphere. Early Dutch, French, and Spanish maps record waterways, land...
Amanda Bellows - "The Explorers: A New History of the United States in Ten Expeditions"
Amanda Bellows’s writing has appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post , and Talking Points Memo . She currently teaches at The New School in New York City. Order The Explorers at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an...
Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns - "Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo"
Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker as well as the author of fourteen books. Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. Order Blood Memory at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We...
Kathleen DuVal - "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America"
Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Order Native Nations at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
What is one reason colonists came to America?
What is one reason colonists came to America? Explained by Tim Bailey Educator from Utah Question 58
Pilgrims, the Plymouth Colony, and Thanksgiving, 1608-1621
About this Lesson Plan Unit The five lessons in this unit explore the Pilgrims’ journey to the British colonies and their early settlement. Students will read primary sources, including excerpts from William Bradford’s “Of...
Inside the Vault: The Salem Witch Trials
In 1693, Puritan preacher Cotton Mather published The Wonders of the Invisible World , providing a detailed account of each Salem witch trial case. Over time, the witch hunts have become heavily mythologized and embedded in our...
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