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  2. Category:Novels set in the American colonial era - Wikipedia

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    Included in this category are novels set in the geographical area which later became the United States, from earliest years of exploration to the American Revolutionary War. Novels which begin before the war but are mainly in the Revolutionary War period should be listed in the Category: American Revolutionary War novels.

  3. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Leo Lemay says that his 1744 travel diary Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is "the best single portrait of men and manners, of rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America." [46] His diary has been widely used by scholars, and covers his travels from Maryland to Maine ...

  4. Oxford History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press. Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward , the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.

  5. The New England Primer - Wikipedia

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    The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been Bibles brought over from England.

  6. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - Wikipedia

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    It is a historical analysis of the development of settler colonialism in North America and the Caribbean in the 17th century. [1] [2] [3] Sarah Barber from the Lancaster University Department of History reviews the book and concludes "Writing accessible history is never easy, and this is a laudable addition."

  7. Poor Richard's Almanack - Wikipedia

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    Almanacks were very popular books in colonial America, offering a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements. [2] Poor Richard's Almanack was also popular for its extensive use of wordplay, and some of the witty phrases coined in the work survive in the contemporary American vernacular.

  8. Charles McLean Andrews - Wikipedia

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    Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 – September 9, 1943) was an American historian, an authority on American colonial history. [1] He wrote 102 major scholarly articles and books, as well as over 360 book reviews, newspaper articles, and short items. [2]

  9. Bibliography of early American publishers and printers

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    The compact history of the American newspaper. New York, Hawthorn Books. Thayer, William Makepeace (1905). Benjamin Franklin, Or, From Printing Office to the Court of St. James. Hodder and Stoughton. Thomas, Isaiah (1874). The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers. Vol. I. New York, B. Franklin. —— (1874).

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