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America's Forgotten Colonial History
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This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight religious Puritans followed them and the whole place became New England. There were some Dutch down in New York, and sooner or later William Penn and the Quakers came to build the City of Brotherly Love in Pennsylvania, and finally it was 1776 and time to revolt against King George III and become America.
That’s it. That’s the narrative of American colonial history known to one and all. Yet there are 150 years – six or seven generations between Plymouth Plantation and the 1770s – that are virtually unknown in our national consciousness and unaccounted for in our American narrative.
Who, what, when, where and why people were motivated to make a two-month crossing on the North Atlantic to carve a life in a largely uncharted, inhospitable wilderness? How and why did they build the varied societies that they did here in the New World colonies? How and why did we become America?
America’s Forgotten Colonial History tells that story.
That’s it. That’s the narrative of American colonial history known to one and all. Yet there are 150 years – six or seven generations between Plymouth Plantation and the 1770s – that are virtually unknown in our national consciousness and unaccounted for in our American narrative.
Who, what, when, where and why people were motivated to make a two-month crossing on the North Atlantic to carve a life in a largely uncharted, inhospitable wilderness? How and why did they build the varied societies that they did here in the New World colonies? How and why did we become America?
America’s Forgotten Colonial History tells that story.
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Table of contents
- Foreword Remembering the Past
- Chapter 1 In the Beginning: A Tale of Two Countries
- Chapter 2 The Backstory: Britain’s Rocky Reformation Sets the Stage
- Chapter 3 Queen Elizabeth and a New World
- Chapter 4 Of Puritans and Pilgrims
- Chapter 5 Beginnings of Migration: The Plantation of Virginia
- Chapter 6 The Exodus to Massachusetts
- Chapter 7 New England’s Great Migration
- Chapter 8 Between the Colonies: An Active and Uncertain Age
- Chapter 9 England in Civil War
- Chapter 10 The Accidental Commonwealth
- Chapter 11 Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy
- Chapter 12 William Penn and the Middle Way
- Chapter 13 At the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 14 Settled: A Cultural Divide and a Southern Border
- Chapter 15 Setting Up the Great Scots Migration
- Chapter 16 At Home in the Backcountry
- Chapter 17 The Wars for North America
- Chapter 18 The Northern Campaign against New France
- Chapter 19 Inching toward Independence
- Chapter 20 We Are the Epilogue
- Appendix A Time Line of Colonial Events