Burlington Public Library

Provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play.

Color photographs and text describe everyday life in the American colonies.

"Describes the people and events involved during the colonial years before the Revolutionary War. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of an indentured Virginia servant, a Massachusetts colonist, and a resident of Philadelphia just before the revolution"--Provided by publisher.

Describes the colonists of the original thirteen American colonies, some of which came from Sweden, Spain, or Africa, what life was like in the colonies, why the people came, and what it was like under British rule.

Presents an assortment of crafts representative of colonial times in the United States

Introduces the tools, activities, and importance of the blacksmith in colonial communities.

A social science textbook describing and contrasting the cultural and social development of American colonies in New England, the Middle Atlantic region, the South, and the West.

Discusses the importance of wood in colonial times, describing how trees were cut down and made into lumber and the training of apprentice carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, and wheelwrights.

A brief look at colonial life in Jamestown and in the New England settlements in the early seventeenth century.