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A Colonial Christmas Season
From banning the Christmas celebration to a month of parties, American colonists celebrated the Christmas season in a variety of different ways.
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A Revolutionary Field Trip: Poems of Colonial America
This review is about A Revolutionary Field Trip: Poems of Colonial America, a children's poetry book about colonial life and living history museums.
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Colonial America Cooking: Seafood Recipes
How to fry, bake or broil fish in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Cooking: Basics of Making Soup
How to make soup stock in 19th century America. Recipe for gumbo soup.
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Colonial America Cooking: Custards and Creams
Recipes for creams, curds, custards and puddings prepared in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Cooking: Miscellaneous Meat Recipes
How beef, lamb, duck and mutton were roasted or stewed in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes for Soup
How to correctly use meat in soups and recipes for soup made from rabbit, venison and curry in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes: Dessert Creams
How various creams such as raspberry, pineapple, almond and vanilla were prepared in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes: Drinks For the Sick
Remedies for cold and flu such as apple tea, whortleberry tea, parched corn coffee, fruit drinks for fevers which were prepared in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes: Easy-to-Make Custards
An introduction to custard preparation and recipes how to make custard cream, rice custard, orange custard, almond custard and plain custard in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes: From Soup to Dessert
Full course meals such as soups,macaroni, roast fowl, fried or boiled vegetables, cookies, cream custard and puddings prepared in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes: Holiday Cakes and Tarts
How tarts and pastry and fruit cakes were prepared in 19th century America.
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Colonial America Recipes: Side Dishes and Sauces
Preparing spinach, tomatoes, carrots, fish sauces and bread sauce in 19th century America.
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Colonial America: Food For the Sick
Recipes for teas and beverages made from beef or chicken or Indian meal or arrowroot in 19th century America.
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Colonial America: Liquorice Recipes
How to make licorice lozenges and licorice extract in 19th century America.
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Colonial America: Candy and Confectionery Drop Recipes
Recipes for making chocolate drops, orange drops, coffee drops, peppermint drops,clove drops and ginger drops in 19th century America.
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Colonial Immigration: An Overview
An overview of the settlement of the 13 original American Colonies
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Eighteenth Century Farmers
The Founding farmers of our new Nation ran the gammit from aristocratic gentlemen to subsistence farmers. A trip to Mount Vernon and the Claude Moore Farm can let you experience both.,The Founding farmers of our new Nation ran the gammit from aristocratic gentlemen to subsistence farmers. A trip to Mount Vernon and the Claude Moore Farm can let you experience both.
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Groaning Boards
Tables were known as groaning boards to early colonial folk.
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Kissin' Cousins
A look at courtship in colonial America.
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Old Fashioned Christmas Recipes From Colonial America
How to make plum pudding and other Christmas puddings in 19th century America.
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Sir William Johnson, Baronet (1715-1774)
Biography of the consummate gentleman of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir William Johnson (1715-1774).
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Teach Colonial America Crafts
Need new ideas to make history interesting to your elementary students? These activities, crafts and games will meet all learning styles and extend beyond the textbook.
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The Colonial Carolinas
The Carolina land grant is issued in an attempt for England to oust Spain from America. It becomes an important agriculture area and shipping port.
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The Foundation of Europe's New World
A detailed piece about how integral the labor systems were to colonial America. Discussed are the three main sources of labor in what would become the United States: the American Indian, indentured servants, and African slaves.
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The Missions of San Antonio
In the mid-18th Century, as the Thirteen Colonies were growing up along the East Coast, Spanish missions in eastern Texas were already thriving. One of them I'm sure you'll remember.
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The Proclamation Line of 1763
A brief description of the Proclamation of 1763 and it's effect on settlement of the Early Frontier.
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William Penn the Quaker
William Penn becomes a devout Quaker. He receives a land grant from the king and establishes Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers.
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British-American Middle Class
Artisans and mechanics had the most direct impact on the Revolutionary War. With middle of the road income, this working class was also called the middling sort.
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Puritan Belief Political Ideaology
Puritanism may be the most maligned religion in American History but conflict with the Anglican Church was a cause of the English Civil War and the American Revolution!
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The Church of Scotland: The Kirk
The Presbyterian Church was a republican inspiration for revolutionary American political values that caused King George to call the Revolution a Presbyterian War.
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A Brief History of Colonial America’s Society & Culture
Colonial American Society: the rise of the free press, public education, political structure, and religious tolerance in the Age of Enlightenment.
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A Witch Hunt in NH - Part II
Women living during the 17th century in Colonial America risked their lives if they were independent, outspoken, or just plain ornery. Join me as look at the life of such a woman.
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A Witch Hunt in NH - Part III
Women living during the 17th century in Colonial America risked their lives if they were independent, outspoken, or just plain ornery. Join me as look at the life of such a woman.
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A Witch Hunt in NH -- Part I
Women living during the 17th century in Colonial America risked their lives if they were independent, outspoken, or just plain ornery. Join me as look at the life of such a woman.
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Color Some History 1
Several readers have asked for history coloring sheets so here they are! Today's is a colonial man.
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Delaware and the English
First Stuyvesant of New Netherlands takes over Delaware. Then the English take it away from Stuyvesant.
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Dutch New York
The Dutch buy Manhattan from the Indians. The King of England gives the Duke of York New York/New Netherlands if he can take it away from the Dutch.
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Marguerite d'la Bergerac
A family folktale presenting my persona.
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Maryland and Religious Freedom
The Act of Toleration is passed, granting citizens in Maryland the freedom to chose their own religion as long as it is a Christian religion. The King is paid two Indian
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The Duke of York
The Duke of York finally gets New York. John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret Establish New Jersey; it becomes populated by Quakers, Catholics, and Presbyterians.
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The Meetinghouse Tragedy
A New Hampshire author preserves a bit of Colonial America in this story of a house raising tragedy and the ballad it spawned.
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The Persecution of Quakers
In and around Salem, Massachusetts the Quakers are harassed, beaten, deported, and sometimes even hanged for what they believe.
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Those Persistent Quakers
In spite of dire punishments handed out to Quakers in Massachusetts, the Quakers continue to migrate to America.
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Where Hope Lives
The ocean floor? Siberia? The Amazon Basin? The Canadian North? Antarctica? What is a frontier, anyway?
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Join or Die! Live Free or Die!
These words; "Give me liberty of give me death" and "English Liberties" united the ideas of Liberty and Freedom, inspiring the social causes of the American Revolution!
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No Taxation Without Representation
Taxation was the political issue after the French & Indian War. American revolutionary rebels say The Proclamation Line, The Quartering Act and The Quebec Act mean war!
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Revolutionary Republican Values
The American political process was parented by the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Reason. Another ancestor in the family tree was the Ancient Roman Republic.
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The Great Awakening 1739-1740
George Whitefield woke them up. Jonathon Edwards went to war for their souls. America found cause for a new spiritual freedom, inspiring the political Revolution in 1776!
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The Southern Aristocrats Values
Before the Revolutionary War, a self-styled Aristocracy substituted slave labor for "artisan and mechanic" contributions of the middle class in the Northern Colonies.
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